In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.