I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth.

You don't know what you don't know.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.