But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees, or a healer of the sick?

In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.