The reason why Proshka wore such large boots can be explained at once: Plyushkin kept only one pair of boots for all of his servants, however numerous they were, and they always stood in the hall. Dead Souls

“People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.” The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

If the knowledge which we acquired before birth was lost to us at birth, and afterwords by the use of the senses we recovered that which we previously knew, will not that which we call learning be a process of recovering our knowledge, and may not this be rightly termed recollection by us? ...Then, Simmias, our souls must have existed before they were in the form of man—without bodies, and must have had intelligence. The Trials Of Socrates

There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. Essays