How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

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

We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth

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.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.