The community of which we form a part is very much like an arch built of stone; it would at once fall down if one did not support another.
We are members of an immense body. Nature begat us as kinsmen, since it formed us of the same elements and for the same end.
What is it that draws us in one direction when we would go in another, that urges us on when we want to resist, that strives against our desires and does not permit us to do what we purpose?
If thou wishest to be loved, love!
No one is free that is the slave of his body.
We ought to live in this thought: I was not born for a corner only; my country is this entire world.
The beginning of salvation is the knowledge of sin. Quoted from Epicurus.
Philosophy sheds its light upon all men.
It is so difficult for us to get well because we do not know that we are sick.
It is the strongest evidence that our mind is directed toward its own improvement when we see faults that we had not before observed.