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"Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?"
"Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves."
"Are not all things which have opposites generated out of their opposites?"
"How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?"
"Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?"
"Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men."
"Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods."
"Anybody can be a hellene, by his heart, his mind, his spirit."
"Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one."
"The warm love has the coldest end."
"...one thing I am ready to fight for as long as I can, in word and act: that is, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we don't know than if we believe there is no point in looking because what we don't know we can never discover."
"Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom."
"God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only."
"Neither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost."
"I only know how little I know"
"All that we know is nothing can be known."
"I only know that I know nothing"
"Wisdom belongs in wonder."
"The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death."
"The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder."