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I am amused, Socrates, at your making a distinction between one who is a relation and one who is not a relation; for surely the pollution is the same in either case

what they love pious or holy; and what some of them love and others hate is both or neither. Shall this be our definition of piety and impiety?

It is not Love absolutely that is good or praiseworthy, but only that Love which impels meant to love aright.

Querido Critão! Quão precioso o teu ardor, se alguma retidão o acompanhasse!

I, on the other hand, have a convincing witness that I speak the truth, my poverty.

The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato

Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the danger;

I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that's kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I'm grateful for it.

It's not the natural disasters you have to fear. It's the ones that are inside of you, waiting to happen.

Like in those Bunny Austen books you read where rabbits live in great parks with manor hutches?

I don't think it is possible to give tips for finding one's voice; it's one of those things for which there aren't really any tricks or shortcuts, or even any advice that necessarily translates from writer to writer. All I can tell you is to write as much as possible.

Jay stopped and unlocked an iron gate with finals wrought in the shape of pineapples.

what's the code for New Orleans? MSY? That doesn't make sense

Tocqueville delivered his dispassionate and penetrating judgment of the American experiment in his great work Democracy in America. No one, before or since, has written about the United States with such insight.

The triumph of human identity and worth over the pathology of human destruction glows virtually everywhere in Levi's writing.

Scrivendo trovavo breve pace e mi sentivo ridiventare un uomo, uno come tutti, nè martire nè infame nè santo, uno di quelli che si fanno una famiglia, e guardano al futuro anzichè al passato. - Il sistema periodico

Mantua brachte mich hervor, Kalabrien raffte mich hinweg, nun birgt mich Neapel. Ich besang Weiden, Felder, Herrscher.

True, he was thinking about American constitutional law, and he probably meant the remark as a joke.

He said ... A pause. He cleared his throat. He said that pity was the only love I could hope for. He saw her swallow, blink. Oh, Akka ... Of all the world, only she truly understood. Of all the world.

No man has wit enough to reason with a fool, Zin.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

Here I was, locked inside this creepy old library with a monster, and I was worried about getting scolded for being late for dinner!

I've been home the whole time. Watching you. What do we do with a troublemaker?

I have a couple of suggestions to help things along," she said. She twisted the slender gold watch on her wrist. "First of all, go back to school on Monday.