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.

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Be kind, for everyone is having a hard battle.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

You cannot go into the same water twice.

...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

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.