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
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. Animal Farm
No one … can entirely step out of his time, that despite his keenness of vision his thinking is in many ways bound to be influenced by the mentality of his time New Ways in Psychoanalysis
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. Heartbreak House
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