Plato

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Plato

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Plato

Wonder is the beginning of the desire to know the beautiful and the good.

Plato

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Plato

You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action – that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

Plato

You ask a question, I said, to which a reply can only be given in a parable. Yes, Socrates; and that is a way of speaking to which you are not at all accustomed, I suppose.

Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Plato

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

Plato

You’re my star, a stargazer too, and I wish that I were Heaven, with a billion eyes to look at you!

Plato