"Any peace is better than any war."
"Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
"I am smart because I know I nothing."
"I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true."
"They master certain pleasures because they are mastered by others, I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains, and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that they only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom ."
"This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit.,."
"Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
"I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it becomes my duty to go back to the cave in order to illuminate the minds of those imprisoned in the βdarknessβ of sensory knowledge."
"The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."
