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“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”
Nietzsche's Zarathustra • Carl Gustav Jung“ “I can’t realize where the story ends and life begins. Sometimes they look at me strangely, then I wake up.””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos““I was so upset that I was so disappointed that I wanted to die at that moment.””
My Sweet Orange Tree • José Mauro de Vasconcelos“The soul, being a harmony, can never utter a note at variance with the tensions and relaxations and vibrations and other affections of the strings out of which she is composed; she can only follow, she cannot lead them? ...And yet do we not now discover the soul to be doing the exact opposite—leading the elements of which she is believed to be composed; almost always opposing and coercing them in all sorts of ways throughout life... threatening and reprimanding the desires, passions, fears, as if talking to a thing which is not herself...”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius