Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

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.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.