"Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest."

"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."

"There is, in my view, the birth of society that each of us, far from being sufficient to itself, on the contrary need a large number of people."

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"There can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man, who combines the possession of moral beauty in his soul with the outward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former, because the same great pattern enters both."

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

"Evil is more opposed to the good than to the no-good."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes."