No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

Welcome out of the cave, my friend. It's a bit colder out here, but the stars are just beautiful.

Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.

There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we now call kings and rulers really And truly become philosophers

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.