You cannot go into the same water twice..

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect..

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible ….

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly..

The true musician is attuned to a fairer harmony than that of the lyre... for he truly has in his own life a harmony of words and deeds arranged in t….

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had an a….

It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself..

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters..

Love: a grave mental disease..

The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes ….

For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beaut….

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!.

To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile..

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise..

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown..

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know..

According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects of their desire. Love is neither ….

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world..

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality..

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are..