Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

What is at issue is the conversion of the mind from the twilight of error to the truth, that climb up into the real world which we shall call true philosophy.

What a handsome face he had: but if he were naked you would forget he had a face, he is so beautiful in every way.

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.