When you are ‘master of the Logos’, you can achieve everything through 'speech'...

And just understand that you need more philosophy to discover & notice that 'life' may have an 'intrinsic value'; nevertheless, if this is established in us as a stimulant to virtue, we shouldn’t ridicule it...

•Apology of Socrates & Crito by Plato

•Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes