Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.
Every realm of nature is marvelous.
... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.
We laugh at that which we cannot bear to face.
The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.