It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions. Essays

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. The Picture of Dorian Gray

You want to have proven to you that the soul is imperishable and immortal, and you think that the philosopher who is confident in death has but a vain and foolish confidence, if he thinks that he will fare better than one who has led another sort of life, in the world below, unless he can prove this; and you say that the strength and divinity of the soul, and of her existence prior to our becoming men, does not necessarily imply her immortality. ...For any man, who is not devoid of natural feeling, has reason to fear, if he has no knowledge or proof of the soul's immortality. That is what I suppose you to say, Cebes, which I designedly repeat, in order that nothing may escape us... The Trials Of Socrates

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. Essays