Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
Wise men speak because they have something to say
Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
I prefer nothing, unless it is true.