I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.