"He who gives himself to a lover..." - Quote by Plato

“I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.”

“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”

“To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is ridiculous.”

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

“I really thought that love would save us all.”

“He (the sage) is good to those who are good. He is also good to those who are not good. That is the virtue of good.”

“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”

“Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.”