A man who had two sons ... went to the first and said, "Son, go out and work in my vineyard today." But he answered and said, "I will not," but afterward he repented of it and he went. And the father went to the second and said the same. But he answered, "I will, sir," and he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father? Works of Love
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. Gorgias
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life. On the Suffering of the World
“No matter how large, how crowded, and how abundant an empire is, there is always a shortage of men.” Samarkand
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