My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

No man should be angry with what is true.

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

Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.