I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

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.

No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.