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“If happiness lay in bodily pleasures, we would call oxen happy when they find vetch to eat.”
Fragments • Heraclitus““The prospect of those visiting hours, for which the starvation artist naturally yearned, since they were the meaning of his life, also made him shudder.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“Those who believe themselves wise regard as real only the appearance of things, but these fashioners of falsehood will have their reward.”
Fragments • Heraclitus“When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object either of that or some parallel proceeding, and to feel themselves, at the time, quite virtuous and moral, and immensely superior to those who express no pity at all. This is a kind of upholding of faith above works, and is very comfortable.”
Nicholas Nickleby • Charles Dickens“„Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.“”
Le Pere Goriot • Honore de Balzac
