Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.