No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.

It was Plato, according to Sosigenes, who set this as a problem for those concerned with these things, through what suppositions of uniform and ordered movements the appearances concerning the movements of the wandering heavenly bodies could be preserved.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.

According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves.