“It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.”

“People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.”

“It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”

“All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.”

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”

“everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure”

“Agathon: But all that talk about death being the same as sleep.
Socrates: Yes, the difference is that when you're dead and somebody yells, "Everybody up, it's morning," it's very hard to find your slippers.”

“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.”