Love is a severe mental disorder.

And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

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.

Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.