The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.

I have good hope that there is something remaining for the dead.

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?