Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

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.

The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

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