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.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts