“Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.”

Fear is the foundation of safety.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

It is certain because it is impossible.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Notice how you breathe can influence how you feel in any moment.

He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

Stop for this moment – and allow yourself to live completely in it.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Some of the magical moments in our life are from the smallest moments.

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!

Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.

Life changes when you least expect it to. The future is uncertain. So, seize this day, seize this moment, and make the most of it.