He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

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

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

There is more both of beauty and of raison d'etre in the works of nature- than in those of art.

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.