Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

He who is learning and learning and doesn't apply what he knows is like the one who is plowing and plowing and doesn't seed.

Our need will be the real creator.

A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.