Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

Those who tell the stories rule society.

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

What is honored in a country will be cultivated there.

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.