Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life. Animal Farm
Everyone is ruled by the Logos, which is common to all; yet, though the Logos is universal, the majority of men live as if they had an identity peculiar to themselves. Fragments
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." The Analects of Confucius
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. Human, All Too Human
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