Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. - Plato

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."

"Life must be lived as play."

"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."