Plato Quotes on Pleasure (6 Quotes)

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Whether these matters are to be regarded as sport, or as earnest, we must not forget that this pleasure is held to have been granted by nature to male and female when conjoined for the work of procreation the crime of male with male, or female with

For let me tell you, that the more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

Pleasure is the bait of sin.

Let early education be a sort of amusement you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.