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“While there are two ways of contending, one by discussion, the other by force, the former belonging properly to man, the latter to beasts, recourse must be had to the latter if there be no opportunity for employing the former.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
The Critic as Artist • Oscar Wilde“The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”
A Woman of No Importance • Oscar Wilde“We are an unfortunate priest-ridden race and always were and always will be tell the end of the chapter.... A priest-ridden Godforsaken race.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce