The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

The soul then, as being immortal, and having been born again many times, and having seen all things that exist, whether in this world or in the world below, has knowledge of them all . . . all enquiry and all learning is but recollection.