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

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.