Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.