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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“The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”
Persuasion • Jane Austen“Variant translation: If I had to define man it would be: a biped, ungrateful.”
Notes from Underground • Fyodor Dostoevski“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf