[n]o Party Is Any Fun Unless Seasoned

'tis An Easier Matter To Raise The Devil Than To Lay Him.

They Are Looking In Utter Darkness For That Which Has No Existence Whatsoever.

What Difference Is There, Do You Think, Between Those In Plato's Cave Who Can Only Marvel At The Shadows And Images Of Various Objects, Provided They Are Content And Don't Know What They Miss, And The Philosopher Who Has Emerged From The Cave And Sees The Real Things?

[only By] The Good Influence Of Our Conduct May We Bring Salvation In Human Affairs; Or Like A Fatal Comet We May Bring Destruction In Our Train.

They May Attack Me With An Army Of Six Hundred Syllogisms; And If I Do Not Recant, They Will Proclaim Me A Heretic.