It's never about what YOU want.
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
It is with many enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except by reiterated efforts, and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.
Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.
I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square. " Magnus, pg. 137
Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.
The most recent studies,. . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with.
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists.