The physician, to the extent he is a physician, considers only the good of the patient in what he prescribes, and his own not at all.

And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaz….

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay.

If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the natu….

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produc….

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our el….

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul..

That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation a….

The soul should concentrate itself by itself..

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses..

Take charge of your thoughts. You can do what you will with them.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous..

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge..

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man..