“Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value.”

“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.”

“Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two....”

“Wise men talk because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.”

“Friends have all things in common.”

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

“Yes, if he is to have true music in him.”