For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. The Prophet

As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us. Essays

“The stronger your self-understanding is, the greater your probability of adapting to the people around you.” Surrounded by Idiots

And this, Cebes, is the reason why the true lovers of knowledge are temperate and brave; and not for the reason that the world gives. For not in that way does the soul of a philosopher reason. ...Never fear, Simmias and Cebes, that a soul which has been thus nurtured and has had these pursuits, will at her departure from the body be scattered and blown away by the winds and be nowhere and nothing. The Trials Of Socrates