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“But the soul which has been polluted, and is impure at the time of her departure, and is the companion and servant of the body always, and is in love with and fascinated by the body and by the desires and pleasures of the body, until she is led to believe that the truth exists only in bodily form, which a man may touch and see and taste and use for the purposes of his lusts—the soul, I mean, accustomed to hate and fear and avoid the intellectual principle, which to the bodily eye is dark and invisible, and can be attained only by philosophy—do you suppose that such a soul as this will depart pure and unalloyed?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.”
Book VI • Marcus Aurelius“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“When authors write novels, they usually act as if they were God and could completely survey and comprehend”
Demian • Hermann Hesse“The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mark Twain