The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.

Knowledge is our ultimate good.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.

It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit.