“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” ― Plutarch     “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” ― Plutarch     “A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare. But if you will contend that you were born to an inclination to such food as you have…

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato     “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato     “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ― Plato     “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ― Plato     “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” ― Plato…

“Life calls the tune, we dance.” ― John Galsworthy         “It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” ― John Galsworthy       “Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call…