PLATO

1. He, if anyone, had the highest meed of praise for wisdom, and was too great for envy.—Anonymous, Greek Anthology
   

2. Oh, Plato! Plato! you have paved the way,
   With your confounded fantasies, to more
   Immoral conduct by the fancied sway
   Your system feigns o'er the controlless core
   Of human hearts, than all the long array
   Of poets and romancers.—BYRON, Don Juan
   

3. Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. Great havoc makes he among our originalities.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

4. Plato is philosophy and philosophy Plato,—at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.—EMERSON, Representative Men
   

5. See there the olive grove of Academe,
   Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird
   Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long.—MILTON, Paradise Regained
   

6. Philosophy did not find Plato already a nobleman, it made him one.—SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium