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Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Plato
Desire, Virtue
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Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

Plato
Vices, Virtue, Involuntary
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.

Plato
Sweet, Errors, Virtue
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

Plato
Men, Musician, Virtue
Plato (1871). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.87

I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom.

Plato
Pain, Coins, Virtue
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Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Plato
Men, Praise, Virtue
Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.159, Cosimo, Inc.

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Plato
Soul, Kind, Virtue
Plato (1849). “The Works of Plato: The Republic, Timaeus, and Critias”, p.130

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato
Evil, Virtue, Harmony

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Plato
Would Be, Virtue, Given
Plato (1900). “Symposium”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

Is virtue something that can be taught?

Plato
Taught, Virtue
Meno, 70a (translated byWK C Guthrie).

Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues.

Plato
Vices, Virtue, Produce
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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