Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. Book VII
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
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy? Studies in Pessimism
“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn’t mine anymore, but one in which I’d found the simplest and most lasting joys.” Stranger
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