It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Minds ripen at very different ages. He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn. Solemnity is the shield of idiots. Useless laws weaken necessary laws. What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.