The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.