... what we can be positive about is what we have just said, namely that they must be given the right education, whatever that may be, as the surest way to make them behave humanely to each other and the subjects in their charge.

The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.