I would fain grow old learning many things.
Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.
I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.
Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.