Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.