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““Wherever you are , some will want to ask questions about your skin or your prayers. Beware of gratifying their instincts, my son, beware of bending before the multitude! Muslim, Jew or Christian, they must take you as you are, or lose you. When men's minds seem narrow to you, tell yourself that the land of God is broad; broad His hands and broad His heart. Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.'”
Leo Africanus • Amin Maalouf“To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.”
To the Lighthouse • Virginia Woolf““He ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“This ordered universe, which is the same for all, was not created by any one of the gods or by man, but always was, is, and shall be, an ever-living Flame that is first kindled and then quenched in turn. [The universe bursts forth and then is reabsorbed, yet its Source is ever-living, like a Sun that never sets] and who can hide from that which never sets? [That eternal Intelligence in man] is forever beyond change;”
Fragments • Heraclitus“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne