Plato's quote: In the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet

In his book, The Republic, Plato identifies a number of changes that needed to be made: we need new heroes: we need censorship; better education; better childhood.

Read too Plato's quote: This city is what it is, because our citizens are what they are!

But Plato is one of the great theorists of relationships. His book, The Symposium, is an attempt to explain what love really is. No one before Plato had asked the key question: Why do we like beautiful things? He found an interesting reason: we see in them a part of "goodness".

Below you can read 25 of his sayings.

• A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

• All people are by nature equal, they are made from the same clay, from the same Worker; and yet we deceive ourselves, to God we are as dear as the poor peasant, as the prince.

• All the gold that is under or above the earth is not enough to give in exchange for Virtue.

• And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Indeed, I said, knowledge is food for the soul.

• Anyone can do harm to another easily, but not everyone can do good to another.

• As the builders say, the biggest stones do not stand well without the smallest ones.

• In the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

• Health care is a major obstacle in life.

• Better a small thing done well than a big one unfinished.

• The cunning is nothing but the lowest imitator of wit.

• Death is not the worst thing that can happen to men.

• Ignorance in itself is not so terrible or extremely evil, and it is by no means the worst of evils; Too much intelligence and too much learning, coupled with wickedness, are fatal…

• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether in seasons, individuals, or governments.

• It was a wise man who invented beer.

• The one who commits injustice is always more unfortunate than the one who suffers it.

• He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

• He who steals a little, steals with the same desire as he who steals a lot, but with less power.

• Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

• I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason.

• I will take your silence as consent.

• If a man neglects education, he walks with a limp at the end of his life.

• No one knows whether death, which men fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

• Parents should bequeath to their children not wealth, but the spirit of honor. /Tirana Observer/