Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

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.

...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.