Socrates and Alcibiades

"Why, holy Socrates, do you court

This youth all the time? Don't you know of anything greater?

Why do your eyes gaze on him with love,

as if you were looking at the gods?"

He who has pondered the most profound thoughts, loves what is most alive;

He who has seen the world understands lofty virtue.

And in the end, the wise will often

Bend toward that which is beautiful.