Plato

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Plato

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

Plato

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Plato

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Plato

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

Plato

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we’re looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven’t found it.

Plato

We ask what is the origin of marriage, and we are told that like the right of property, after many wars and contests, it has gradually arisen out of the selfishness of barbarians.

Plato

We become what we contemplate.

Plato

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Plato