What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

... 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.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.