Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.