Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Patience s bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body

With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.