Geometry existed before creation.
No one ever dies an atheist.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .