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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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. • Oscar Wilde“Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.”
Marriage as a Psychological Relationship • Carl Gustav Jung““Be not too confiding, nor frivolous, nor over enthusiastic, —three rocks on which youth often strikes. Too confiding a nature loses respect, frivolity brings contempt, and others take advantage of excessive enthusiasm.””
The Lily Of The Valley • Honore de Balzac“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.”
Never Give In! • Winston S Churchill