There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. For a man who claims to have knowledge, while actually knowing nothing, is less smarter than you, who claim to know nothing.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.