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““Experience had proven that for about forty days, through gradually intensified publicity, you could go on stimulating a city’s interest, but beyond that time there was no audience.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“I conceive that the founders of the mysteries had a real meaning and were not mere triflers when they intimated in a figure long ago that he who passes unsanctified and uninitiated into the world below will live in a slough, but that he who arrives there after initiation and purification will dwell with the gods. For "many," as they say in the mysteries, "are the thyrsus bearers, but few are the mystics,"—meaning, as I interpret the words, the true philosophers.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.”
Book II • Marcus Aurelius“Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce