“Maxims were like neural shortcuts, like icons on a desktop that instantly connect you to a body of information.”

“For Aristotle, friendship in its highest form has a political or civic dimension. We love our friends not just because we like each other or are useful to each other, but because we share the same values and ideals for our society, and come together to advance those ideals.”

“The angry person is acutely sensitive to all they are owed by the world, and blind to all they have received”

“...if I know him and like him just a little bit more than I already do, our emotional connection will be too strong for me to ever go back to the way I was before him.”

“Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you”

“He walked noisily, like a fish.”

“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”