WINE

...the wine which Dionysius has given men to lighten the sourness of old age; that in age we may renew our youth, and forget our sorrows; and also in order that the nature of the soul, like iron melted in the fire, may become softer and so more impressible.

Plato, Law, II 666BC

WINE

First, there is wine, which warms the soul as well as the body.

Plato, Timaeus 60A

EROS

Eros is the one who makes:
Peace among men, and a windless waveless main;
Repose for winds, and slumber in our pain.

Plato, Symposium 197C

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Wrong Words

For, dear Crito, you may be sure that such wrong words are not only undesirable in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato, Phaedo 115E

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WONDER

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato, Theaetetus, 155D

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