The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
The wolf cares not, how many the sheep be.
Man is a being in search of meaning.
A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.