“At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven’s blessings.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty

Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.