Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.