When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.
The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.