Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.