Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us.

Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.

If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

The nonsense that charms is close to sense.

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Friendship is love minus sex and plus reason. Love is friendship plus sex minus reason