A house that has a library in it has a soul.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.