No one does wrong voluntarily.
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.
The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.