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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“The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.”
Beware of Pity • Stefan Zweig“Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca“If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat.”
Fragments • Heraclitus