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.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know