You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.

Philosophy is the highest music.

There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who, when danger is pressing in, will not acknowledge the divine power.

The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'