Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Books are immortal sons deifying their sires.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.