Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.
For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
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