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“How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“"That man is … odd," I dared say to William.”
The Name of The Rose • Umberto Eco“ "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"”
The Analects of Confucius • Confucius“However, nothing turned out as Tchitchikoff had intended.”
Dead Souls • Nikolai Gogol“I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For "many," as they say in the mysteries, "are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,"—meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato