When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

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.