Mario

“Socrates was a figure universally admired; not only the Stoics, but the Cynics, the Skeptics and Epicureans recognized him as their foundational figure and did their best to show that their views were consistent or even identical with those Socrates supposedly held. Everyone, it seems, wanted a piece of him, and to the degree that these rival systems of thought succeeded in presenting themselves as Socratic in inspiration, their reputation with the public is enhanced.”
― Robert Dobbins

“A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.”
― Marcel Proust

“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.”
― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns

“She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go.”
― Dorothy Parker