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.

The beginning is half of the whole.

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.