Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. |
He was a wise man who invented beer. |
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it |
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. |
He who not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted. |
He whom love touches not walks in darkness |
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. |
Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love-all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce." |
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. |
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? |
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge |
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. |
I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I don't THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are. |
I have good hope that there is something after death. |
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning |