Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.