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.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

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.

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.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?