The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.