In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Love is a serious mental disease.

There is truth in wine and children

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

the matter is as it is in all other cases: if it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice ...

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Thou hast added insult to injury.

A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

But I'm not dead, " Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

Nature declares herself in her works. What exists beyond her domain, if anything, becomes necessarily a matter of faith or imagination.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

Approval of what is approved of Is as false as a well-kept vow.

A one-word book does appeal to me.

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed