The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.
PlatoLet him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
PlatoMy plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
Plato