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

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

What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?

The gods created certain kinds of beings to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds.

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else.