Plato Quotes About Affection

Quotes about: Affection

• Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Philosopher, Affection

  Plato, Henry Cary, Rev. Henry Davis (M.A.), George Burges (1848). “The Works of Plato: The Apology of Socrates, Crito, Phaedo, Gorgias, Protagoras, Phaedrus, Theaetetus, Euthyphron, and Lysis”, p.385

• If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

  Plato

  Love, Men, Doe

  Plato (2007). “The Republic”, p.292, Penguin UK

• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

• He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.

  Plato

  Men, Errors, Views

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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