Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

[Hope is] the dream of a waking man.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

When the storytelling goes bad in a society, the result is decadence.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.