And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
Do thine own work, and know thyself.
The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
Of all the Gods, Love is the best friend of humankind, the helper and healer of all ills that stand in the way of human happiness.