Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.