The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.
Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.
Men who have seen life and death... as an unbroken continuum, the swinging pendulum, have been able to move as freely into death as they walked through life. Socrates went to the grave almost perplexed by his companions' tears.