He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.