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

... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

And so, 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.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.