And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another.

I do not live to play, but I play in order that I may live, and return with greater zest to the labors of life.

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.