"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."

"I am speaking like a book, but I believe that what I am saying is true."

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal."

"The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions."

"Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own."

"As there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world."

"To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."

"If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?"

"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."

"Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has."