He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.