Love: a grave mental disease.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him.