If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

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.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.

There is no illness of the body except for the mind