They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Truth is its own reward.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The seen is the changing, the unseen is the unchanging.

Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.