The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Man was not made for himself alone

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.