You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

Nothing is so well learned as that which is discovered.

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.