Even the gods love jokes.
The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.
The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.
So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.