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“The exchange of one fear or pleasure or pain for another fear or pleasure or pain, which are measured like coins, the greater with the less, is not the exchange of virtue. O, my dear Simmias, is there not one true coin, for which all things ought to exchange?—and that is wisdom; and only in exchange for this, and in company with this, is anything truly bought or sold, whether courage or temperance or justice. ...in the true exchange, there is a purging away of all these things, and temperance, and justice, and courage, and wisdom herself are a purgation of them.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato““What scholars came, what did they find! Like candles they shed light on the world. Which one broke through this darkness? They told a tale and fell asleep.””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.”
Mardi • Herman Melville“But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions. ”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius“Yet in doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom.”
The Two Towers • J.R.R Tolkien