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“Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. ”
Book V • Marcus Aurelius“If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat.”
Fragments • Heraclitus“If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski“Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.”
Journals • Andre Gide“As long as we do not suffocate the natural emotions of our hearts by force, it is clear that there is a feeling of hatred in humans for killing and pain of other animals, and it is also clear that when all people are forced to kill the animals they eat with their own hands, most of them turn to vegetarianism.”
The Benefits of Vegetarianism • Sadegh Hedayat