No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers