"Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting."

"The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings."

"No human thing is of serious importance."

"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."

"Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended."

"If people despise money when young, but grow to love it more and more as they grow older and no longer devote themselves to excellence as the best guardian, the power of reasoned, educated speech, leaves them."

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

"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

"This feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."

"The harder you work, the luckier you get."