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“If any man could arrive at the exterior limit, or take the wings of a bird and fly upward, like a fish who puts his head out and sees the world, he would see a world beyond; and, if the nature of man could sustain this sight, he would acknowledge that this was the place of the true heaven and the true light and the true stars. For this earth, and the stones, and the entire region which surrounds us, are spoilt and corroded...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good. ”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest. ”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers.”
The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens“I often ardently perceived a longing for relief, the desire for a proper confession, but I also felt in advance that I would be unable to tell and explain things correctly to either my father or mother. I knew that they would receive my words amicably, they would carefully spare my feelings, in fact, pity me, but they wouldn’t fully understand me, and the whole thing would be looked on as a sort of minor infraction, whereas it was actually my fate.”
Demian • Hermann Hesse