At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

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.

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

God ever geometrizes.

What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.

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