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?

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them.