Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

But it is not at all certain that this superiority of the many over the sound few is possible in the case of every people and every large number. There are some whom it would be impossible: otherwise the theory would apply to wild animals- and yet some men are hardly any better than wild animals.

As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts.

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

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.