Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any