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.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

You should not honor men more than truth.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.