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“Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens“Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius““Did you never observe the narrow intelligence flashing from the keen eye of a clever rogue—how eager he is, how clearly his paltry soul sees the way to his end; he is the reverse of blind, but his keen eye-sight is forced into the service of evil, and he is mischievous in proportion to his cleverness?””
Republic • Plato“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.”
Human, All Too Human • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius