Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Most people do not understand until old age what Plato tells them when they are young.