Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life.
Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.