When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

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.'

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, bot to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.