I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them

Ideas are the source of all things

Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.

He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.