I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Mariner, do not ask whose tomb this may be, but go with good fortune: I wish you a kinder sea.

The life which is not examined is not worth living.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine.