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“Where there have been powerful governments, societies, religions, public opinions, in short wherever there has been tyranny, there the solitary philosopher has been hated; for philosophy offers an asylum to a man into which no tyranny can force it way, the inward cave, the labyrinth of the heart.”
Untimely Meditations • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Loyalty that is bought with money, may be overcome by money.”
Day's Collacon • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.”
Reflections on Literature and Morality • Andre Gide“And are not the temperate exactly in the same case? They are temperate because they are intemperate—which may seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance. For there are pleasures which they must have, and are afraid of losing; and therefore they abstain from one class of pleasures because they are overcome by another: and whereas intemperance is defined as "being under the domination of pleasure," they overcome only because they are overcome by pleasure.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Give of what you have to strangers and to those who have need: for he who gives not to him who wants, will not receive himself when he wants.”
Fragment • Epictetus