It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.