Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

I alone know I am wise because I alone know I know nothing.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

In order that the mind should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can learn to contemplate reality and that supreme splendor which we have called the good. Hence there may well be an art whose aim would be to effect this very thing.

If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all

Knowing thyself is the height of wisdom.