All wish to live in the nearness of God, but only the Hindus bring it to pass. - Apollonius of Tyana

Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man.

Approve and pursue the kind that is in accordance with nature. But avoid the kind that claims to be inspired: people like that about tell lies about Gods, and urge us to do many foolish things.

Pythagoras said that medicine is the most godlike of arts. But if the most godlike, it should tend to the soul as well as the body, or else a living thing must be unhealthy, being diseased in its higher part.