Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.
Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
All thought begins with the recognition that something is out of place.
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.