I call that man idle who might be better employed.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

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.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?