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“Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder.”
The Return of the King • J.R.R Tolkien“As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes.”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“He who is everywhere is nowhere.”
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales • Lucius Annaeus Seneca““For certainly old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold, then, as Sophocles says, we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. The truth is, Socrates, that these regrets, and also the complaints about relations, are to be attributed to the same cause, which is not old age, but men’s characters and tempers; for he who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.””
Republic • Plato“If there is no immortality, there is no virtue. ... Without God and immortal life? All things are lawful then, they can do what they like?”
The Karamazov Brothers • Fyodor Dostoevski