No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Virtue is harmony.

Pythagoras

All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can come up with a rational argument for their inclusion in a well-governed community, we'd be delighted -- short of compromising the truth as we see it, which wouldn't be right -- to bring them back from exile: after all, we know from our own experience all about their spell. I mean haven't ever fallen under the spell of poetry, Glaucon, especially when the spectacle is provided by Homer?

Plato

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Edvard Munch

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five.

Charles Barkley

I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more experiences.

Deborah Cox

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Archibald Rutledge

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish and many heroisms from the sympathetic, and, in other ways, to play no small part in the tragedy of life.

George Eliot

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas Llosa

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.

Aeschylus

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best way to prepare for death is to live life to its fullest.

John Bytheway