Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

Every action has its pleasures and its price.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit.

There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

Be as you wish to seem.