Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Whether we will philosophize or we won't philosophize, we must philosophize.

Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.