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

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither wise nor beautiful, but is rather the desire for wisdom and beauty.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.