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.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.