Philosophy is the art of living.

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

Nature without learning is blind, learning apart from nature is fractional, and practice in the absence of both is aimless.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.