I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

The best stomachs are not those which reject all foods.