In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.

Laws are not made for the good.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.