Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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.

My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.