No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.