

“Neither family, nor privilege, nor wealth, nor anything but Love can light that beacon which a man must steer by when he sets out to live the better life.”
Traced to The Symposium.
More from Plato
“Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it, through this all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us.”
Plato
Sophist
verified“Grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich.”
Plato
Phaedrus
verified“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
Plato
Protagoras
verified“Pleasure is the bait of sin.”
Plato
Timaeus
verified“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”
Plato
Phaedrus
verified“For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato
The Symposium
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“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
This Is My Story · 1937
verified“The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”
Viktor Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning · 1959
verified“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Strength to Love · 1963
verified“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
Nelson Mandela
Long Walk to Freedom · 1995
verified“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man · 1877
verified“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on earth.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov · 1879
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