Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.
You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
What is charm, it is not a moral quality. . it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even. . it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach.
Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.
I changed my life today. What did you do?
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people. . . Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs. . . Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.
It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.
The only men I love are dead.