Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

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.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.