Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body.

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.

Even the gods love jokes.