Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

No one ever dies an atheist.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.