“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” — Socrates

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.