. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.