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“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
The Winter of Our Discontent • John Steinbeck“This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”
American Claimant • Mark Twain““Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.””
Eat That Frog! • Brian Tracy