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“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Julius Caesar • William Shakespeare“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius“His ear heard more than was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
Of Mice and Men • John Steinbeck“To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.”
Human, All Too Human • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“This question of yours, Sir, about my being a house painter — or rather, not a question, you simply made a statement — is typical of the whole character of this trial that is being foisted on me. You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such. But for the moment I do recognize it, on grounds of compassion, as it were. One can't regard it except with compassion, if one is to regard it at all. I do not say that your procedure is contemptible, but I should like to present that epithet to you for your private consumption.”
The Trial • Franz Kafka