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“I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.”
Letters from the Earth • Mark Twain“The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde“This is a fine saying of Plato: That he who is discoursing about men should look also at earthly things as if he viewed them from some higher place; should look at them... a mixture of all things and an orderly combination of contraries.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary�s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.”
Ulysses • James Joyce