“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”

“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.”

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

“Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.”

“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty”

“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”