If in a discussion of many matters ... we are not able to give perfectly exact and self-consistent accounts, do not be surprised: rather we would be content if we provide accounts that are second to none in probability.
PlatoThe god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
PlatoLet every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind.
PlatoPeople regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.
PlatoThose who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.
Plato