Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject.

Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.