The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

God is truth and light his shadow.