In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know

There is but one evil, ignorance.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

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.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.