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“But the soul which has been polluted, and is impure at the time of her departure, and is the companion and servant of the body always, and is in love with and fascinated by the body and by the desires and pleasures of the body, until she is led to believe that the truth exists only in bodily form, which a man may touch and see and taste and use for the purposes of his lusts—the soul, I mean, accustomed to hate and fear and avoid the intellectual principle, which to the bodily eye is dark and invisible, and can be attained only by philosophy—do you suppose that such a soul as this will depart pure and unalloyed?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.”
A Study in Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson • Mark Twain“Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. If, instead of saying "throughout eternity," the couple would say, "until Easter, until next May Day," then what they say would make some sense, for then they would be saying something and also something they perhaps could carry out.”
Either/Or • Soren Kierkegaard“Those who live for hope alone find that the immediate future always slips from their grasp.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca