Just as the queen bee, the highest-ranking, peerless creature of her hive, is surrounded by lowly drones to please her, whereas the workers produce honey, the same way is the one who sits on the throne an equal only to himself, and no one's companion.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

I understand the phrase "Honor the Women" all too well: the poet has probably a wife of his own, but he prefers to honor another.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.