Even the gods love jokes.
Quotations
Plato
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individual, or in governments.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
