"At the touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet."

"Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large."

"Men say that we ought not to enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe, nor busy ourselves in searching out the causes of things, and that such enquiries are impious; whereas the very opposite is the truth."

"Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery."

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine. A man who uses reminders of these things correctly is always at the highest, most perfect level of initiation, and he is the only one who is perfect as perfect can be. He stands outside human concerns and draws close to the divine; ordinary people think he is disturbed and rebuke him for this, unaware that he is possessed by god."

"Does not every man love that which he deems noble and just and good, and hate the opposite of them? people regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."

"There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain."

"The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction."

"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

"How singular is the thing called pleasure, and how curiously related to pain, which might be thought to be the opposite of it; for they never come to a man together, and yet he who pursues either of them is generally compelled to take the other. They are two, and yet they grow together out of one head or stem."

"A life without investigation is not worth living."

"Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."

"Good actions can strengthen ourselves and inspire good actions to others."

"Any peace is better than any war."

"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."

"The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so."

"It is by justice, that we can authenticate a man's value or nullity, the absence of justice, is the absence of what makes him man."

"Books are immortal sons defying their sires."

"The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.,."