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“There is a virtue, Simmias, which is named courage. Is not that a special attribute of the philosopher? ...Again, there is temperance. Is not the calm, and control, and disdain of the passions which even the many call temperance, a quality belonging only to those who despise the body and live in philosophy?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato““Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others."”
The Duel • Anton Chekhov“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
Three Guineas • Virginia Woolf“ “The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence."”
Uncle Vanya • Anton Chekhov““A young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts.””
Republic • Plato