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.

And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own proper jewels - temperance and justice, and courage, and nobility and truth - she is ready to go on her journey when the hour comes.

If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.