Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?

The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.