Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until he has first given you his soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day, that physicians first separate the soul from the body.

Do thine own work, and know thyself.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.