To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

Friends enhance our ability to think and act.

So that the lover of myths, which are a compact of wonders, is by the same token a lover of wisdom.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.