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

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.