Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.
No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.