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“A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.”
De Profundis • Oscar Wilde“The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable.”
Discourses • Epictetus“The only respect in which man is superior to animals is that he can die when he wants to, not just when he has to. Maybe it's the one freedom you can always count on — the freedom to throw your life away.”
The Post Office Girl • Stefan Zweig“By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.”
Letter to Polish Journalist • Leo Tolstoy“In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.”
Fragment • Epictetus