For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.