Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.

Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death