It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.