We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.