Wise do not believe that anyone does wrong willingly but only unwillingly out of ignorance.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, is called love.