The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

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