"Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees."
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
"Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?"
"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
"If the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you should take courage and whatever you do not happen to know, that is to remember, at present, you must endeavor to discover and recollect I cannot swear to everything I have said in this argument but one thing I am ready to fight for in word and deed, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we do not know, than if we think we cannot discover it and have no duty to seek it."
"Even the gods love jokes."
"I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."
"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
"They think that you bear old age more easily not because of the way you live but because youβre wealthy, for the wealthy, they say, have many consolations."
"If the truth of all things that are is always in our soul, then the soul must be immortal, so you should take courage and whatever you do not happen to know, that is to remember, at present, you must endeavor to discover and recollect I cannot swear to everything I have said in this argument but one thing I am ready to fight for in word and deed, that we shall be better, braver and more active men if we believe it right to look for what we do not know, than if we think we cannot discover it and have no duty to seek it."
