Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

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.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.