The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.