The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.