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“Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.”
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Variant: Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“We admitted that everything living is born of the dead. For if the soul existed before birth, and in coming to life and being born can be born only from death and dying, must she not after death continue to exist, since she has to be born again?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Good painters imitated nature while bad ones vomited it.”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes““If you do not know how to love, what good is the rising and setting of the sun?””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf