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““And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.””
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“ “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress."”
Uncle Vanya • Anton Chekhov“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
The Art Of War • Sun Tzu“Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.”
Ulysses • James Joyce“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato