As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

I do not mean to moralise but to those who do, I would give this advice : if you mean ultimately to deprive the best things and states of all all honour and worth then continue to talk about them as you have been doing!

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.