Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts