Tamara

“It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.”
― Plato, Phaedo

“And a sweet expression spreads over her fair face.”
― Sappho

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“....I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia—by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.

(tr Jowett)”
― Plato, Phaedo