Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.