Why should we place Christ at the top and summit of the human race? Was he kinder, more forgiving, more self-sacrificing than ? Was he wiser, did he meet death with more perfect calmness, than ? Was h...
Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.
As you say of yourself, I too am an . I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.[]
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.
Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.