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

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to be too small a thing to you? Then take a good look at the tree he shook.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.