Plutarch

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.

Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting
solidity or exactness of beauty.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.

Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best
defence against a knave.

. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and
well made. "Yet," read more

. . . And holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and
well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it
pinches me."

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

Socrates ... said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.