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.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.