How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

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

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

All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.