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“Look round at the courses of the stars, as if thou wert going along with them; and constantly consider the changes of the elements into one another; for such thoughts purge away the filth of the terrene life.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.”
Hunted Down • Charles Dickens“The truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness.”
Mrs. Dalloway • Virginia Woolf““And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.””
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius