Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.

The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.