...the Gods too love a joke.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.