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“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“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
The Grapes of Wrath • John Steinbeck“Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.”
Adam's Diary • Mark Twain“Those numbers may not sound like a big deal until one reflects that average global temperatures were "only" 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.”
Mark Twain's Notebook • Mark Twain