One can perfectly well philosophize while cooking supper.
… privation is the source of appetite.
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?…I have this inclination to study and if it is evil I am not the one who formed me thus – I was born with it and with it I shall die.
I don’t study to know more, but to ignore less.
In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I’ve nothing to fear.
The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?
Aristotle could have known so much more if he cooked.
Must I dwell in slavery’s night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?
In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.
O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay – Or he who pays for sin?
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.
Rare is he who will concede genius.