And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.