Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask.

death was the price of life.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

True friends share everything, except the past before they met.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Change is the sum of the universe, and what is of nature ought not to be feared. But one gives it hostages, and lays one's grief upon the gods. Sokrates is free, and would have taught me freedom. But I have yoked the immortal horse that draws the chariot with a horse of earth; and when the one falls, both are entangled in the traces.