Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

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

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

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

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.