"O virtue, I have followed you through..." - Quote by Euripides

“All men know their children mean more than life.”

“Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing.”

“What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.”

“Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.”

“Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.”

“Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.”

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.”

“Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.”

“What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?”