“But I hold that he who teaches that not reason but love should rule opens up the way for those who rule by hate.”

“They should rule who are able to rule best.”

“It’s not by chance that most of the basketball players are tall men, nor that most of the transvestite are homosexuals. It’s also not a coincidence that most of those who hold the power are ambitious people. In other words, it’s not a coincidence that the world is ruled by people who shouldn’t rule.”

“Who himself cannot control
Why should he o'er others rule?”

“He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.”

“How few philosophers are to be found who are such in character, so ordered in soul and in life, as reason demands; who regard their teaching not as a display of knowledge, but as the rule of life; who obey themselves, and submit to their own decrees!”
Quotus enim quisque philosophorum invenitur, qui sit ita moratus, ita animo ac vita constitutus, ut ratio postulat? qui disciplinam suam non ostentationem scientiae, sed legem vitae putet? qui obtemperet ipse sibi et decretis suis pareat?

“They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.”

“The world is not ruled by those who have money, but those who have dreams”

“As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.”

“I love who dares... I hate those who use.”