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“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
The Decay of Lying • Oscar Wilde“When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.”
Discourses • Epictetus“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone.”
the Revolt of the Masses • Jose Ortega y Gasset“Let the punishment match the offense.”
On The Laws • Marcus Tullius Cicero