Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

When the music changes, the walls of the city shake.

There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.

The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.