Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

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