There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.

The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.

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.

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.