To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

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.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

My friend...care for your psyche...know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves