Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.