“Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.