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

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.