...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Even the gods love jokes.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.