Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse.
Take a look around, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence.
From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.
Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
The beginning is the most important part...for that is the time character is being formed.