Apollonius of Tyana

As soldiers need not only courage but tactics also, so does a philosopher need not only courage and philosophy but discernment also, to tell what his right time of dying is - so that he neither seek it nor flee it. ”

I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future. ”

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error. ”

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself. ”

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them. ”

It is at the time of dawn that we must commune with the gods. ”