At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Plato · The source reads: “Once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet.” · From Agathon's speech in praise of Love in the Symposium; the familiar wording is Benjamin Jowett's Victorian translation.

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

Plato · Phaedo, 91

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Plato · Republic, X, 608–D

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Plato · Laws, 808

More Love Quotes

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

bell hooks · The heart of her argument that love is something we do, from the chapter that defines it.

I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.

Ronald Reagan · The source reads: “The important thing is I don't want to be without you for the next 20 years, or 40, or however many there are.” · Reagan's twentieth anniversary letter to Nancy, joking that they had been married twenty minutes, not twenty years.