I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.