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

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form.

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.