I quote others in order to better express myself.

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.