“Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

“Be kind, because everyone is having a really hard time.”

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

“those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.”

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”

“Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?”