Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured? Beware of Pity
Those also who are remarkable for having led holy lives are released from this earthly prison, and go to their pure home which is above, and dwell in the purer earth; and those who have duly purified themselves with philosophy live henceforth altogether without the body, in mansions fairer far than these... The Trials Of Socrates
“Living characters! Life must be represented not as it is, but as it ought to be; as it appears in dreams.” Uncle Vanya
People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The Karamazov Brothers
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