Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

We are too feeble and sluggish to make our way out to the upper limit of the air. If someone could reach the summit, or put on wings and fly aloft, when he put up his head he would see the world above, just as fishes see our world when they put up their heads out of the sea; and if his nature were able to bear the sight, he would recognize that that is the true heaven.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.