Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare.

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.