The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.

For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

Modesty in human beings is praised because it is not a matter of nature, but of will.