Plato quotes

It must be soPlato, thou reason'st well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

-Joseph Addison
  Cato, act 5, sc.1, l.1^10.

Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

-Aristotle
Proverbial expression, traditionally attributed to  Aristotle, going back to a passage in the Ethica Nicomachea,1069a. English  cricket  commentator  and  writer,  a  police  detective before  joining  the BBC  in 1945.  His  voice became  the  epitome of radio cricket commentary.

Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

-Honorius of Autun
c.1130  Gemma  Animae, prologue. English poet  and journalist.  His collection Odes and Addresses (1825) was followed by several volumes of humorous verse and political poems such as 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843).

And truly, even Plato, whosoever well considereth shall find that in the body of his work, though the inside and strength were philosophy, the skin as it were and beauty depended most on poetry.

- Sir Philip Sidney
  The Defence of Poetry.

To saya man is fallen in love,or that he is deeply in love,or up to the ears in love,and sometimes even over head and ears in it,carries an idiomatical kind of implication, that love is a thing below a man:this is recurring again to Plato's opinion, which, with all his divinityship,I hold to be damnable and heretical:and so much for that. Let love therefore be what it will,my uncleToby fell into it.

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.6, ch.37.

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

-Tennyson
  'Lucretius',1.145^9.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. 904

- Alfred North Whitehead
  Process and Reality, pt.2, ch.1, section1.

The power of Christianity lies in its revelation in act, of that which Plato divined in theory.

- Alfred North Whitehead
  Adventures of Ideas.