You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

The hardest task needs the lightest hand or else its completion will not lead to freedom but to a tyranny much worse than the one it replaces.

Either I do not corrupt the young or, if I do, it is unwillingly.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.