O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

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