When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

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And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smooth and easy, or rugged and difficult.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and his presumptuous poetry will be obscured by the songs of the maniacs.

I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.

The first and best victory is to conquer self.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Yes, if he is to have true music in him.

Love is a serious mental illness.

The mind more often faints from the severity of study than from the severity of gymnastics: the toil is more entirely the mind's own and is not shared with the body.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.