Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Love is a serious mental disease.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

Give me a different set of mothers and I will give you a different world