Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.