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""So even among the men to come a man may shrink
from wounding the host who shows him with kindness."
~ 3:411-412 (Menelaus taking on Paris with a prayer to Zeus)" — Aug 26, 2024 08:36PM
""So even among the men to come a man may shrink
from wounding the host who shows him with kindness."
~ 3:411-412 (Menelaus taking on Paris with a prayer to Zeus)" — Aug 26, 2024 08:36PM
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three
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“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
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“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
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“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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