We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know