Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.