Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.
I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.
The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.
...the Gods too love a joke.