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.

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

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

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth.

There is truth in wine and children

Is there anything worse for a state than to be split and disunited? or anything better than cohesion and unity?