Plato Quotes

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Justice and good will outlast passion.

Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.

Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness;--to love Him in others' virtues.

Happiness and Virtue clasp hands and walk together.

I pray for a more friendly, more caring, and more understanding human family on this planet. To all who dislike suffering, who cherish lasting happiness, this is my heartfelt appeal.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Love is the higher law.

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

Since the things we do determine the character of life, no blessed person can become unhappy. For he will never do those things which are hateful and petty.

All the good are friends of one another.

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be worthy of her. The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women.

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

Virtue alone is happiness below.