Nothing is what rocks dream about
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'