Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.