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“Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius““No matter how large, how crowded, and how abundant an empire is, there is always a shortage of men.””
Samarkand • Amin Maalouf“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”
Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer“As an enemy is made more fierce by our flight, so pain grows proud to see us truckle under it; she will surrender upon much better terms to those who make head against us.”
Essays • Michel De Montaigne“By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful. For this appears to me the safest answer to give both to myself and others; and adhering to this, I think that I shall never fall, but that it is a safe answer both for me and any one else to give — that by means of beauty beautiful things become beautiful.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato