Philosophy begins in wonder.

Any peace is better than any war

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.