Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better wo….

Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating som….

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place..

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she ha….

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete wit….

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is t….

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man w….

The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse..

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young ….

Who you are is less important than what you seem..

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all arou….

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away..

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame….

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing..

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed ….

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco).

Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions..

I learned that I' have to be detached if I was ever to achieve anything at all..

He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it..

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of o….

Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ign….