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 greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

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

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

Just as you ought not to attempt to cure eyes without head or head without body, so you should not treat body without soul.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.