Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile?
All thinking begins with wondering
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.