I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Fear of women love more than hate the man.

I know that I know nothing.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.