All knowledge is but remembrance.

Love consists in feeling the Sacred One beating inside the loved one.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.