Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

The love of indulgence is rooted in the depths of a man's heart. His soul would prefer to share the excessive and unrestrained; but his soul cannot love.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.