There are relapses in the disorders of the soul as well as in those of the body. What we take to be our cure is most often nothing but an intermission or a change of the disorder. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
The souls impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. – Epictetus
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family. – Eleanor Holmes Norton