Beauty is a gift of God.
Therefore, even the lover of myth is a philosopher; for myth is composed of wonder.
A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.