Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?

The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole.

Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

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

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.