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pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q7","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"I am first affrighted and confounded with that forelorn solitude, in which I am placed in my philosophy, and fancy myself some strange uncouth monster","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q8","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q9","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q10","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q11","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"the minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each others emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments and opinions may be often reverberated","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q12","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q13","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-of-human-nature-q14","title":"A Treatise of Human Nature","text":"Morality, therefore, is more properly felt than judged of","work":"A Treatise of Human Nature","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/a-treatise-of-human-nature/#a-treatise-of-human-nature-q14"},{"type":"quote","id":"a-treatise-on-insanity-q1","title":"A Treatise on Insanity","text":"I was not a little surprized to find many maniacs who at no period gave evidence of any lesion of the understanding, but who were under the dominion of instinctive and ab- stract fury","work":"A Treatise on Insanity","author":"Philippe Pinel","url":"/works/a-treatise-on-insanity/#a-treatise-on-insanity-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"an-enquiry-concerning-human-understanding-q1","title":"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding","text":"Be a philosopher; 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as well as its soporific or anodyne virtues, mere powers, depending on its primary qualities","work":"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/#an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q7","title":"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding","text":"it is but a supposed I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents","work":"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/an-essay-concerning-human-understanding/#an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"an-essay-concerning-human-understanding-q8","title":"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding","text":"every one sees he would be the same PERSON with the prince, accountable only for the prince’s actions: but who would say it was the same MAN","work":"An Essay Concerning Human Understanding","author":"John 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It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion","work":"Critique of Pure Reason","author":"Immanuel Kant","url":"/works/critique-of-pure-reason/#critique-of-pure-reason-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"critique-of-pure-reason-q11","title":"Critique of Pure Reason","text":"A hundred real dollars contain no more than a hundred possible dollars","work":"Critique of Pure Reason","author":"Immanuel Kant","url":"/works/critique-of-pure-reason/#critique-of-pure-reason-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"critique-of-pure-reason-q12","title":"Critique of Pure Reason","text":"scepticism is merely a means of awakening reason from its dogmatic dreams and exciting it to a more careful investigation into its own powers and pretensions","work":"Critique of Pure Reason","author":"Immanuel Kant","url":"/works/critique-of-pure-reason/#critique-of-pure-reason-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"critique-of-pure-reason-q13","title":"Critique of Pure Reason","text":"1. WHAT CAN I KNOW? 2. WHAT OUGHT I TO DO? 3. WHAT MAY I HOPE","work":"Critique of Pure Reason","author":"Immanuel Kant","url":"/works/critique-of-pure-reason/#critique-of-pure-reason-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"daisy-miller-q1","title":"Daisy Miller","text":"I was booked to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts","work":"Daisy Miller","author":"Henry James","url":"/works/daisy-miller/#daisy-miller-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"david-copperfield-q1","title":"David Copperfield","text":"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show","work":"David Copperfield","author":"Charles Dickens","url":"/works/david-copperfield/#david-copperfield-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"david-copperfield-q2","title":"David Copperfield","text":"Barkis is willin","work":"David Copperfield","author":"Charles Dickens","url":"/works/david-copperfield/#david-copperfield-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"david-copperfield-q3","title":"David Copperfield","text":"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. 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Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil","work":"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/dialogues-concerning-natural-religion/#dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q10","title":"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion","text":"But what racking pains, on the other hand, arise from gouts, gravels, megrims, toothaches, rheumatisms, where the injury to the animal machinery is either small or incurable","work":"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion","author":"David Hume","url":"/works/dialogues-concerning-natural-religion/#dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q11","title":"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion","text":"The whole presents nothing but the idea of a blind Nature, impregnated by a great vivifying principle, and pouring forth from her lap, without discernment or parental care, her maimed and abortive 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longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene Descartes","url":"/works/discourse-on-method/#discourse-on-method-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"discourse-on-method-q4","title":"Discourse on Method","text":"The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene Descartes","url":"/works/discourse-on-method/#discourse-on-method-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"discourse-on-method-q5","title":"Discourse on Method","text":"imitating in this the example of travelers who, when they have lost their way in a forest, ought not to wander from side to side, far less remain in one place, but proceed constantly towards the same side in as straight a line as possible","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene 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our thoughts to others","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene Descartes","url":"/works/discourse-on-method/#discourse-on-method-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"discourse-on-method-q12","title":"Discourse on Method","text":"and thus render ourselves the lords and possessors of nature","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene Descartes","url":"/works/discourse-on-method/#discourse-on-method-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"discourse-on-method-q13","title":"Discourse on Method","text":"for the mind is so intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene Descartes","url":"/works/discourse-on-method/#discourse-on-method-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"discourse-on-method-q14","title":"Discourse on Method","text":"we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age","work":"Discourse on Method","author":"Rene Descartes","url":"/works/discourse-on-method/#discourse-on-method-q14"},{"type":"quote","id":"don-quixote-q1","title":"Don Quixote","text":"In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing","work":"Don Quixote","author":"Miguel de Cervantes","url":"/works/don-quixote/#don-quixote-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"don-quixote-q2","title":"Don Quixote","text":"In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits","work":"Don Quixote","author":"Miguel de 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Enter freely and of your own will","work":"Dracula","author":"Bram Stoker","url":"/works/dracula/#dracula-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"dracula-q2","title":"Dracula","text":"Listen to them--the children of the night. What music they make","work":"Dracula","author":"Bram Stoker","url":"/works/dracula/#dracula-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"dracula-q3","title":"Dracula","text":"I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul","work":"Dracula","author":"Bram Stoker","url":"/works/dracula/#dracula-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"dracula-q4","title":"Dracula","text":"My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac","work":"Dracula","author":"Bram Stoker","url":"/works/dracula/#dracula-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"dracula-q5","title":"Dracula","text":"The blood is the life! 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it was decided to draw a rod of white-hot iron across his forehead","work":"Early Franciscan Sources","author":"Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others","url":"/works/early-franciscan-sources/#early-franciscan-sources-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"early-franciscan-sources-q4","title":"Early Franciscan Sources","text":"Brother fire,\" he said, \"you are beautiful above all creatures; be favorable to me in this hour; you know how much I have always loved you; be then courteous to-day","work":"Early Franciscan Sources","author":"Francis of Assisi; Thomas of Celano; Bonaventure; Brother Ugolino; others","url":"/works/early-franciscan-sources/#early-franciscan-sources-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"east-of-eden-q1","title":"East of Eden","text":"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—'Thou mayest'—that gives a choice.","work":"East of Eden","author":"John Steinbeck","url":"/works/east-of-eden/#east-of-eden-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"ecce-homo-q1","title":"Ecce Homo","text":"I am not a man, I am dynamite","work":"Ecce Homo","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/ecce-homo/#ecce-homo-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"enneads-q1","title":"Enneads","text":"he must learn to recognise the beauty in the arts, sciences, virtues; 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but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-bacon-q10","title":"Essays","text":"for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-bacon-q11","title":"Essays","text":"a man's own observation, what he finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-bacon-q12","title":"Essays","text":"As for the passions, and studies of the mind; avoid envy, anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-bacon-q13","title":"Essays","text":"Physicians are, some of them, so pleasing and conformable to the humor of the patient, as they press not the true cure of the disease; and some other are so regular, in proceeding according to art for the disease, as they respect not sufficiently the condition of the patient","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-bacon-q14","title":"Essays","text":"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q14"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-bacon-q15","title":"Essays","text":"Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like","work":"Essays","author":"Francis Bacon","url":"/works/essays-bacon/#essays-bacon-q15"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q1","title":"Essays","text":"Thus, reader, myself am the matter of my book: there’s no reason thou shouldst employ thy leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q2","title":"Essays","text":"The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learned to die has unlearned to serve","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q3","title":"Essays","text":"the very sight of another’s pain materially pains me, and I often usurp the sensations of another person","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q4","title":"Essays","text":"he found the same operation and effect that those do who have taken one indeed","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q5","title":"Essays","text":"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q6","title":"Essays","text":"every one gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q7","title":"Essays","text":"When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q8","title":"Essays","text":"This fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: “What do I know?” as I bear it with the emblem of a balance","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q9","title":"Essays","text":"I am in conflict with the worst, the most sudden, the most painful, the most mortal, and the most irremediable of all diseases","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q10","title":"Essays","text":"every man carries the entire form of human condition","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q11","title":"Essays","text":"I study myself more than any other subject; ‘tis my metaphysic, my physic","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q12","title":"Essays","text":"When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-montaigne-q13","title":"Essays","text":"when seated upon the most elevated throne in the world, we are but seated upon our breech","work":"Essays","author":"Michel de Montaigne","url":"/works/essays-montaigne/#essays-montaigne-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q1","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"in his unrelenting cruelty man is in no way inferior to the tiger and the hyaena","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q2","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"In every man there dwells, first and foremost, a colossal egoism, which breaks the bounds of right and justice with the greatest freedom","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q3","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"in hatred too, which stands to anger like a chronic to an acute disease, a man may indulge with the greatest delight","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q4","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"man is the only animal which causes pain to others without any further purpose than just to cause it","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q5","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"it is the will to live, which, more and more embittered by the constant sufferings of existence, seeks to alleviate its own torment by causing torment in others","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q6","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"But it is _Schadenfreude_, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q7","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"they are only masks, and, as a rule, behind the masks you will find moneymakers","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q8","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"A man's character, as my readers are aware, assuredly comes to him from his father","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q9","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"while our several actions are in no wise free, every man's individual character is to be regarded as a free act","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q10","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"The chief cause of intellectual diversity is to be found in the brain and nervous system","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q11","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"Compared with the Moral Law the State is a crutch instead of a limb, an automaton instead of a man","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"essays-and-aphorisms-q12","title":"Essays and Aphorisms","text":"It is in their person that we become aware of human misery; we are filled with sympathy; and the result of this mood is general benevolence, philanthropy","work":"Essays and Aphorisms","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/essays-and-aphorisms/#essays-and-aphorisms-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q1","title":"Ethics","text":"So they will pursue their questions from cause to cause, till at last you take refuge in the will of God--in other words, the sanctuary of ignorance","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q2","title":"Ethics","text":"PROP. XIII. The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body, in other words a certain mode of extension which actually exists, and nothing else","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q3","title":"Ethics","text":"I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q4","title":"Ethics","text":"PROP. VI. Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavours to persist in its own being","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q5","title":"Ethics","text":"II. Pleasure is the transition of a man from a less to a greater perfection","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q6","title":"Ethics","text":"Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q7","title":"Ethics","text":"As I have heard tell of a certain Spanish poet, who had been seized with sickness, and though he recovered therefrom yet remained so oblivious of his past life, that he would not believe the plays and tragedies he had written to be his own","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q8","title":"Ethics","text":"PROP. XLII. Mirth cannot be excessive, but is always good; contrariwise, Melancholy is always bad","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q9","title":"Ethics","text":"But, in reality, Avarice, Ambition, Lust, &c., are species of madness, though they may not be reckoned among diseases","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q10","title":"Ethics","text":"PROP. LIV. Repentance is not a virtue, or does not arise from reason; but he who repents of an action is doubly wretched or infirm","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q11","title":"Ethics","text":"PROP. LXVII. A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q12","title":"Ethics","text":"PROP. III. An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"ethics-q13","title":"Ethics","text":"But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare","work":"Ethics","author":"Baruch Spinoza","url":"/works/ethics/#ethics-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"fathers-and-sons-q1","title":"Fathers and Sons","text":"A nihilist is a man who does not bow down before any authority, who does not take any principle on faith, whatever reverence that principle may be enshrined in.","work":"Fathers and Sons","author":"Ivan Turgenev","url":"/works/fathers-and-sons/#fathers-and-sons-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"fathers-and-sons-q2","title":"Fathers and Sons","text":"A decent chemist is twenty times as useful as any poet.","work":"Fathers and Sons","author":"Ivan Turgenev","url":"/works/fathers-and-sons/#fathers-and-sons-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"fathers-and-sons-q3","title":"Fathers and Sons","text":"Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.","work":"Fathers and Sons","author":"Ivan Turgenev","url":"/works/fathers-and-sons/#fathers-and-sons-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"fathers-and-sons-q4","title":"Fathers and Sons","text":"they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of 'indifferent' nature; they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.","work":"Fathers and Sons","author":"Ivan Turgenev","url":"/works/fathers-and-sons/#fathers-and-sons-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q1","title":"Fragments","text":"This world, which is the same for all, no one of gods or men has made; but it was ever, is now, and ever shall be an ever-living Fire, with measures of it kindling, and measures going out.","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q2","title":"Fragments","text":"War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men, some bond and some free.","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q3","title":"Fragments","text":"The way up and the way down is one and the same.","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q4","title":"Fragments","text":"You cannot step twice into the same rivers; for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you.","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q5","title":"Fragments","text":"A man, when he gets drunk, is led by a beardless lad, tripping, knowing not where he steps, having his soul moist.","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q6","title":"Fragments","text":"The dry soul is the wisest and best","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"fragments-q7","title":"Fragments","text":"Nature loves to hide.","work":"Fragments","author":"Heraclitus","url":"/works/fragments/#fragments-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"frankenstein-q1","title":"Frankenstein","text":"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay / To mould me man? 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The horror","work":"Heart of Darkness","author":"Joseph Conrad","url":"/works/heart-of-darkness/#heart-of-darkness-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"heart-of-darkness-q8","title":"Heart of Darkness","text":"Mistah Kurtz—he dead","work":"Heart of Darkness","author":"Joseph Conrad","url":"/works/heart-of-darkness/#heart-of-darkness-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"jewish-antiquities-q1","title":"Jewish Antiquities","text":"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man","work":"Jewish Antiquities","author":"Flavius Josephus","url":"/works/jewish-antiquities/#jewish-antiquities-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"jewish-antiquities-q2","title":"Jewish Antiquities","text":"the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James","work":"Jewish Antiquities","author":"Flavius Josephus","url":"/works/jewish-antiquities/#jewish-antiquities-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"king-lear-q1","title":"King Lear","text":"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, They kill us for their sport","work":"King Lear","author":"William Shakespeare","url":"/works/king-lear/#king-lear-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"lectures-on-clinical-psychiatry-q1","title":"Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry","text":"This infirmity is the incurable outcome of a very common history of disease, to which we will provisionally give the name of Dementia Prcecox","work":"Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry","author":"Emil Kraepelin","url":"/works/lectures-on-clinical-psychiatry/#lectures-on-clinical-psychiatry-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"letters-from-a-stoic-q1","title":"Letters from a Stoic","text":"Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time","work":"Letters from a Stoic","author":"Seneca","url":"/works/letters-from-a-stoic/#letters-from-a-stoic-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q1","title":"Leviathan","text":"For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the begining whereof is in some principall part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheeles as doth a watch) have an artificiall life","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q2","title":"Leviathan","text":"For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q3","title":"Leviathan","text":"Imagination therefore is nothing but Decaying Sense","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q4","title":"Leviathan","text":"Dejection, subjects a man to causelesse fears; which is a Madnesse commonly called MELANCHOLY, apparent also in divers manners; as in haunting of solitudes, and graves; in superstitious behaviour; and in fearing some one, some another particular thing","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q5","title":"Leviathan","text":"If some man in Bedlam should entertaine you with sober discourse; and you desire in taking leave, to know what he were, that you might another time requite his civility; and he should tell you, he were God the Father; I think you need expect no extravagant action for argument of his Madnesse","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q6","title":"Leviathan","text":"For the effect of the wine, does but remove Dissimulation; and take from them the sight of the deformity of their Passions","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q7","title":"Leviathan","text":"So that in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of Power after power, that ceaseth onely in Death","work":"Leviathan","author":"Thomas Hobbes","url":"/works/leviathan/#leviathan-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"leviathan-q8","title":"Leviathan","text":"And this Feare of things invisible, is the naturall Seed of that, which every one in himself calleth Religion; 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Model yourself upon them","work":"Napoleon's Maxims of War","author":"Napoleon Bonaparte","url":"/works/napoleons-maxims-of-war/#napoleons-maxims-of-war-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"northanger-abbey-q1","title":"Northanger Abbey","text":"No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine","work":"Northanger Abbey","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/northanger-abbey/#northanger-abbey-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"northanger-abbey-q2","title":"Northanger Abbey","text":"only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language","work":"Northanger Abbey","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/northanger-abbey/#northanger-abbey-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"northanger-abbey-q3","title":"Northanger Abbey","text":"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid","work":"Northanger Abbey","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/northanger-abbey/#northanger-abbey-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"northanger-abbey-q4","title":"Northanger Abbey","text":"Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. 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of the play of probabilities and chance, which make it a free activity of the soul; and of the subordinate nature of a political instrument, by which it belongs purely to the reason","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q6","title":"On War","text":"War is the province of uncertainty: three-fourths of those things upon which action in War must be calculated, are hidden more or less in the clouds of great uncertainty","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q7","title":"On War","text":"The young soldier cannot reach any of these different strata of danger without feeling that the light of reason does not move here in the same medium, that it is not refracted in the same manner as in speculative contemplation","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q8","title":"On War","text":"By this comes to light for the inexperienced eye one of those things which put fetters in the dark, as it were, on the action of the mind, and wear out in secret the powers of the soul","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q9","title":"On War","text":"Everything is very simple in War, but the simplest thing is difficult","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q10","title":"On War","text":"Habit gives strength to the body in great exertion, to the mind in great danger, to the judgment against first impressions","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q11","title":"On War","text":"How many trifling illnesses by that means become serious, how many serious ones become mortal","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"on-war-q12","title":"On War","text":"It has certainly a grammar of its own, but its logic is not peculiar to itself","work":"On War","author":"Carl von Clausewitz","url":"/works/on-war/#on-war-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"pensees-q1","title":"Pensees","text":"Imagination.--It is that deceitful part in man, that mistress of error and falsity, the more deceptive that she is not always so","work":"Pensees","author":"Blaise Pascal","url":"/works/pensees/#pensees-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"pensees-q2","title":"Pensees","text":"She makes men happy and sad, healthy and sick, rich and poor","work":"Pensees","author":"Blaise Pascal","url":"/works/pensees/#pensees-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"pensees-q3","title":"Pensees","text":"If magistrates had true justice, and if physicians had the true art of healing, they would have no occasion for square caps","work":"Pensees","author":"Blaise Pascal","url":"/works/pensees/#pensees-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"pensees-q4","title":"Pensees","text":"We have another source of error in diseases. 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Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands","work":"Persuasion","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/persuasion/#persuasion-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"persuasion-q5","title":"Persuasion","text":"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone","work":"Persuasion","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/persuasion/#persuasion-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"persuasion-q6","title":"Persuasion","text":"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope","work":"Persuasion","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/persuasion/#persuasion-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"phaedrus-and-letters-vii-and-viii-q1","title":"Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII","text":"this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories","work":"Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII","author":"Plato","url":"/works/phaedrus-and-letters-vii-and-viii/#phaedrus-and-letters-vii-and-viii-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"phaedrus-and-letters-vii-and-viii-q2","title":"Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII","text":"Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward man be at one","work":"Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII","author":"Plato","url":"/works/phaedrus-and-letters-vii-and-viii/#phaedrus-and-letters-vii-and-viii-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"poems-hopkins-q1","title":"Poems","text":"THE world is charged with the grandeur of God","work":"Poems","author":"Gerard Manley Hopkins","url":"/works/poems-hopkins/#poems-hopkins-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"politics-q1","title":"Politics","text":"If the state is the organisation of men seeking a common good, power and political position must be given to those who can forward this end","work":"Politics","author":"Aristotle","url":"/works/politics/#politics-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"pride-and-prejudice-q1","title":"Pride and Prejudice","text":"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife","work":"Pride and Prejudice","author":"Jane Austen","url":"/works/pride-and-prejudice/#pride-and-prejudice-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"principia-q1","title":"Principia","text":"Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon","work":"Principia","author":"Isaac Newton","url":"/works/principia/#principia-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"second-treatise-of-government-q1","title":"Second Treatise of Government","text":"reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions","work":"Second Treatise of Government","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/second-treatise-of-government/#second-treatise-of-government-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"second-treatise-of-government-q2","title":"Second Treatise of Government","text":"But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence","work":"Second Treatise of Government","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/second-treatise-of-government/#second-treatise-of-government-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"second-treatise-of-government-q3","title":"Second Treatise of Government","text":"a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one","work":"Second Treatise of Government","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/second-treatise-of-government/#second-treatise-of-government-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"second-treatise-of-government-q4","title":"Second Treatise of Government","text":"yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself","work":"Second Treatise of Government","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/second-treatise-of-government/#second-treatise-of-government-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"second-treatise-of-government-q5","title":"Second Treatise of Government","text":"Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy","work":"Second Treatise of Government","author":"John Locke","url":"/works/second-treatise-of-government/#second-treatise-of-government-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"second-treatise-of-government-q6","title":"Second Treatise of Government","text":"Thus in the beginning all the world was America, and more so than that is now; 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For man needs the largest brain as compared to the body","work":"Summa Theologica","author":"Thomas Aquinas","url":"/works/summa-theologica/#summa-theologica-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"summa-theologica-q11","title":"Summa Theologica","text":"Indeed, the commotion of the spirits and humors may be so great that such appearances may even occur to those who are awake, as is seen in mad people, and the like","work":"Summa Theologica","author":"Thomas Aquinas","url":"/works/summa-theologica/#summa-theologica-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"summa-theologica-q12","title":"Summa Theologica","text":"The majority of men follow their passions, which are movements of the sensitive appetite, in which movements of the heavenly bodies can cooperate: but few are wise enough to resist these passions","work":"Summa Theologica","author":"Thomas Aquinas","url":"/works/summa-theologica/#summa-theologica-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q1","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","text":"Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine","work":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","author":"Mark Twain","url":"/works/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/#the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q2","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","text":"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain","work":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","author":"Mark Twain","url":"/works/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/#the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q3","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","text":"Work consists of whatever a body is _obliged_ to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do","work":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","author":"Mark Twain","url":"/works/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/#the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q4","title":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","text":"So endeth this chronicle. It being strictly a history of a _boy_, it must stop here; the story could not go much further without becoming the history of a _man","work":"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer","author":"Mark Twain","url":"/works/the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer/#the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-aeneid-q1","title":"The Aeneid","text":"Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate, And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, Expell’d and exil’d, left the Trojan shore","work":"The Aeneid","author":"Virgil","url":"/works/the-aeneid/#the-aeneid-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-age-of-alexander-q1","title":"The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives","text":"For it is not Histories that I am writing, but Lives; and in the most illustrious deeds there is not always a manifestation of virtue or vice","work":"The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives","author":"Plutarch","url":"/works/the-age-of-alexander/#the-age-of-alexander-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-agricola-and-the-germania-q1","title":"The Agricola and the Germania","text":"To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace.","work":"The Agricola and the Germania","author":"Tacitus","url":"/works/the-agricola-and-the-germania/#the-agricola-and-the-germania-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q1","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q2","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q3","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no better cure than business","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q4","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q5","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"I had not time to lick it into form, as she doth her young ones","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q6","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"Melancholy in this sense is the character of mortality","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q7","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"The common sort define it to be a kind of dotage without a fever, having for his ordinary companions, fear and sadness, without any apparent occasion","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q8","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"puts study, contemplation, and continual meditation, as an especial cause of madness","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q9","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"one supposeth himself to be a dog, cock, bear, horse, glass, butter, &c","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q10","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"Musica est mentis medicina moestae, a roaring-meg against melancholy, to rear and revive the languishing soul","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q11","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosopher's stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q12","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health, hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q13","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"Waking, by reason of their continual cares, fears, sorrows, dry brains, is a symptom that much crucifies melancholy men, and must therefore be speedily helped, and sleep by all means procured","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q14","title":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","text":"observe this short precept, give not way to solitariness and idleness. Be not solitary, be not idle","work":"The Anatomy of Melancholy","author":"Robert Burton","url":"/works/the-anatomy-of-melancholy/#the-anatomy-of-melancholy-q14"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-antichrist-q1","title":"The Antichrist","text":"What is good?--Whatever augments the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself, in man","work":"The Antichrist","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-antichrist/#the-antichrist-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q1","title":"The Art of War","text":"There have Laurence, many helde, and do holde this opinion, that there is no maner of thing, whiche lesse agreeth the one with the other, nor that is so much unlike, as the civil life to the Souldiours","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q2","title":"The Art of War","text":"for as muche as the errours that I maie happen to make by writing, may be without harme to any man corrected: but those the whiche of them be made in doyng cannot be knowen without the ruine of Empires","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q3","title":"The Art of War","text":"How much better thei should have doen (be it spoken without displeasure to any man) to have sought to been like the antiquitie in thinges strong, and sharpe, not in the delicate and softe: and in those that thei did in the Sunne, not in the shadowe","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q4","title":"The Art of War","text":"good he shall never bee judged, whom maketh an excersise thereof, where purposing alwaies to gaine thereby, it is requisite for hym to be ravenyng, deceiptfull, violente, and to have many qualities, the whiche of necessitie maketh hym not good","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q5","title":"The Art of War","text":"the whiche thinges thei overcame, with accustomyng the body to diseases, and with hardenyng it, to bee able to indure labour. And you knowe, how that in thinges accustomed, men suffer no grief","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q6","title":"The Art of War","text":"Then for to avoide infirmitie, thei did flie from places Fennie, or subjecte to hurtfull windes: whiche thei knewe not so well, by the qualitie of the situacion, as by the face of the inhabitours: for when thei sawe theim evill coloured, or swollen, or full of other infeccion, thei would not lodge there","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q7","title":"The Art of War","text":"those that fall sicke by chaunce, make them to bee cured of Phisicions: bicause a capitain hath no reamedie, when he hath to faight with sicknesse, and with an enemie: but nothing is so profitable, to maintaine the armie in health, as is the exercise","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q8","title":"The Art of War","text":"It is better to conquere the enemie with faminne, then with yron: in the victorie of which, fortune maie doe much more then valiantnesse","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q9","title":"The Art of War","text":"Nature breedeth few stronge menne, the industrie and the exercise maketh manie","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q10","title":"The Art of War","text":"Discipline maie doe more in warre, then furie","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q11","title":"The Art of War","text":"their studies wer, to prepare the body to diseases, and the minde not to feare perilles","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q12","title":"The Art of War","text":"bicause this Province seemes to bee altogether given, to raise up againe the thynges dedde, as is seen by the perfeccion that poesie, paintyng, and writing, is now brought unto","work":"The Art of War","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-art-of-war-machiavelli/#the-art-of-war-machiavelli-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q1","title":"The Art of War","text":"Sun Tzŭ said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q2","title":"The Art of War","text":"All warfare is based on deception","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q3","title":"The Art of War","text":"There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q4","title":"The Art of War","text":"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q5","title":"The Art of War","text":"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q6","title":"The Art of War","text":"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q7","title":"The Art of War","text":"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q8","title":"The Art of War","text":"5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q9","title":"The Art of War","text":"and camp on hard ground, the army will be free from disease of every kind","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q10","title":"The Art of War","text":"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q11","title":"The Art of War","text":"Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q12","title":"The Art of War","text":"Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-art-of-war-q13","title":"The Art of War","text":"Knowledge of the enemy’s dispositions can only be obtained from other men","work":"The Art of War","author":"Sun Tzu","url":"/works/the-art-of-war/#the-art-of-war-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bacchae-and-other-plays-q1","title":"The Bacchae and Other Plays","text":"But the world's Wise are not wise, Claiming more than mortal may","work":"The Bacchae and Other Plays","author":"Euripides","url":"/works/the-bacchae-and-other-plays/#the-bacchae-and-other-plays-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bacchae-and-other-plays-q2","title":"The Bacchae and Other Plays","text":"There may be many shapes of mystery, And many things God makes to be, Past hope or fear","work":"The Bacchae and Other Plays","author":"Euripides","url":"/works/the-bacchae-and-other-plays/#the-bacchae-and-other-plays-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bhagavad-gita-q1","title":"The Bhagavad Gita","text":"Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams","work":"The Bhagavad Gita","author":"Anonymous (attributed to Vyasa)","url":"/works/the-bhagavad-gita/#the-bhagavad-gita-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q1","title":"The Bible","text":"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q2","title":"The Bible","text":"And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q3","title":"The Bible","text":"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q4","title":"The Bible","text":"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q5","title":"The Bible","text":"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q6","title":"The Bible","text":"Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q7","title":"The Bible","text":"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q8","title":"The Bible","text":"They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q9","title":"The Bible","text":"My name is Legion: for we are many","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q10","title":"The Bible","text":"Physician, heal thyself","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q11","title":"The Bible","text":"Jesus wept","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-bible-q12","title":"The Bible","text":"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities","work":"The Bible","author":"Anonymous","url":"/works/the-bible/#the-bible-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q1","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"slowly recovering from a disease brought home from the field, made up his mind definitely regarding the \"Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of _Music","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q2","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"might not this very Socratism be a sign of decline, of weariness, of disease, of anarchically disintegrating instincts","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q3","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"to view science through the optics of the artist, and art moreover through the optics of life","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q4","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"We take delight in the immediate apprehension of form; all forms speak to us; there is nothing indifferent, nothing superfluous","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q5","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"It is either under the influence of the narcotic draught, of which the hymns of all primitive men and peoples tell us, or by the powerful approach of spring penetrating all nature with joy, that those Dionysian emotions awake, in the augmentation of which the subjective vanishes to complete self-forgetfulness","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q6","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"There are some, who, from lack of experience or obtuseness, will turn away from such phenomena as \"folk-diseases\" with a smile of contempt or pity prompted by the consciousness of their own health","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q7","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"What is best of all is for ever beyond your reach: not to be born, not to _be_, to be _nothing._ The second best for you, however, is soon to die","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q8","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"for only as an _æsthetic phenomenon_ is existence and the world eternally _justified","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q9","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"Knowledge kills action, action requires the veil of illusion--it is this lesson which Hamlet teaches","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q10","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"Here, in this extremest danger of the will, _art_ approaches, as a saving and healing enchantress","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q11","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"Greek tragedy had a fate different from that of all her older sister arts: she died by suicide, in consequence of an irreconcilable conflict","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q12","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"The dying Socrates_ became the new ideal of the noble Greek youths,--an ideal they had never yet beheld","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-birth-of-tragedy-q13","title":"The Birth of Tragedy","text":"the belief which first came to light in the person of Socrates,--the belief in the fathomableness of nature and in knowledge as a panacea","work":"The Birth of Tragedy","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-birth-of-tragedy/#the-birth-of-tragedy-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-brothers-karamazov-q1","title":"The Brothers Karamazov","text":"Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him","work":"The Brothers Karamazov","author":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","url":"/works/the-brothers-karamazov/#the-brothers-karamazov-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-brothers-karamazov-q2","title":"The Brothers Karamazov","text":"What is hell?” I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love","work":"The Brothers Karamazov","author":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","url":"/works/the-brothers-karamazov/#the-brothers-karamazov-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-weird-stories-q1","title":"The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories","text":"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents","work":"The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories","author":"H. P. 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Lovecraft","url":"/works/the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-weird-stories/#the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-weird-stories-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-weird-stories-q4","title":"The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories","text":"I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.","work":"The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories","author":"H. P. 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Why should he expose soldiers to be wounded; who had deserved so well of him? Why, in short, should he tempt fortune? especially when it was as much a general's duty to conquer by tactics, as by the sword","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q4","title":"The Civil War","text":"struggling moreover with a fatal pestilence, from their long confinement and change of victuals (for they all subsisted on old millet and damaged barley, which they had formerly provided and laid up in the public stores against an emergency of this kind","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q5","title":"The Civil War","text":"But Curio declared that he would never more appear in Caesar's sight, after losing the army which had been committed by Caesar to his charge, and accordingly fought till he was killed","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q6","title":"The Civil War","text":"There was a sort of root, called chara, discovered by the troops which served under Valerius. This they mixed up with milk, and it greatly contributed to relieve their want","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q7","title":"The Civil War","text":"that they themselves were not in good health from their confinement within so narrow a compass, from the noisome smell, the number of carcasses, and the constant fatigue to them, being men unaccustomed to work, and labouring under a great want of water","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q8","title":"The Civil War","text":"many fell victims to the autumnal pestilence in Italy, many returned home, and many were left behind on the continent. Have you not heard that the cohorts at Brundisium are composed of invalids","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q9","title":"The Civil War","text":"General, I will act in such a manner to-day, that you will feel grateful to me living or dead","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q10","title":"The Civil War","text":"for there is a certain impetuosity of spirit and an alacrity implanted by nature in the hearts of all men, which is inflamed by a desire to meet the foe. This a general should endeavour not to repress, but to increase","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-civil-war-q11","title":"The Civil War","text":"he embarked in a small boat with a few attendants, and was there murdered by Achillas and Septimius","work":"The Civil War","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-civil-war/#the-civil-war-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-communist-manifesto-q1","title":"The Communist Manifesto","text":"The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles","work":"The Communist Manifesto","author":"Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels","url":"/works/the-communist-manifesto/#the-communist-manifesto-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"whitman-complete-poems-q1","title":"The Complete Poems","text":"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you","work":"The Complete Poems","author":"Walt Whitman","url":"/works/whitman-complete-poems/#whitman-complete-poems-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"whitman-complete-poems-q2","title":"The Complete Poems","text":"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes","work":"The Complete Poems","author":"Walt Whitman","url":"/works/whitman-complete-poems/#whitman-complete-poems-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"whitman-complete-poems-q3","title":"The Complete Poems","text":"I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world","work":"The Complete Poems","author":"Walt Whitman","url":"/works/whitman-complete-poems/#whitman-complete-poems-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q1","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q2","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"in most cases men willingly believe what they wish","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q3","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"Leap, fellow soldiers, unless you wish to betray your eagle to the enemy. I, for my part, will perform my duty to the commonwealth and my general","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q4","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"Cicero himself, though he was in very weak health, did not leave himself the night-time for repose, so that he was forced to spare himself by the spontaneous movement and entreaties of the soldiers","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q5","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"They wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another, and they think that men by this tenet are in a great degree excited to valour, the fear of death being disregarded","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q6","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"they who are troubled with unusually severe diseases and they who are engaged in battles and dangers, either sacrifice men as victims, or vow that they will sacrifice them, and employ the Druids as the performers of those sacrifices","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q6"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q7","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"Thus, being excited by the massacre at Genabum and the fatigue of the siege, they spared neither those worn out with years, women, or children","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q7"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q8","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"To be unable to bear privation for a short time is disgraceful cowardice, not true valour. Those who voluntarily offer themselves to death are more easily found than those who would calmly endure distress","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q9","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"supported life by the corpses of those who appeared useless for war on account of their age, and did not surrender to the enemy","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q10","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"When these came to the Roman fortifications, weeping, they begged of the soldiers by every entreaty to receive them as slaves and relieve them with food. But Caesar, placing guards on the rampart, forbade them to be admitted","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-conquest-of-gaul-q11","title":"The Conquest of Gaul","text":"Accordingly he cut off the hands of those who had borne arms against him. Their lives he spared, that the punishment of their rebellion might be the more conspicuous","work":"The Conquest of Gaul","author":"Julius Caesar","url":"/works/the-conquest-of-gaul/#the-conquest-of-gaul-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-q1","title":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich","text":"Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.","work":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich","author":"Leo Tolstoy","url":"/works/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/#the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-q2","title":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich","text":"There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.","work":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich","author":"Leo Tolstoy","url":"/works/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/#the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-q3","title":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich","text":"\"Death is finished,\" he said to himself. \"It is no more!\"","work":"The Death of Ivan Ilyich","author":"Leo Tolstoy","url":"/works/the-death-of-ivan-ilyich/#the-death-of-ivan-ilyich-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-divine-comedy-q1","title":"The Divine Comedy","text":"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost","work":"The Divine Comedy","author":"Dante Alighieri","url":"/works/the-divine-comedy/#the-divine-comedy-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-divine-comedy-q2","title":"The Divine Comedy","text":"All hope abandon, ye who enter in","work":"The Divine Comedy","author":"Dante Alighieri","url":"/works/the-divine-comedy/#the-divine-comedy-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"early-christian-creeds-q1","title":"The Early Christian Creeds","text":"I believe in God the Father Almighty [Maker of heaven and earth","work":"The Early Christian Creeds","author":"Various","url":"/works/early-christian-creeds/#early-christian-creeds-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"early-christian-creeds-q2","title":"The Early Christian Creeds","text":"We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible","work":"The Early Christian Creeds","author":"Various","url":"/works/early-christian-creeds/#early-christian-creeds-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"early-christian-creeds-q3","title":"The Early Christian Creeds","text":"Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father","work":"The Early Christian Creeds","author":"Various","url":"/works/early-christian-creeds/#early-christian-creeds-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"early-christian-creeds-q4","title":"The Early Christian Creeds","text":"one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten","work":"The Early Christian Creeds","author":"Various","url":"/works/early-christian-creeds/#early-christian-creeds-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"early-christian-creeds-q5","title":"The Early Christian Creeds","text":"Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith","work":"The Early Christian Creeds","author":"Various","url":"/works/early-christian-creeds/#early-christian-creeds-q5"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-federalist-papers-q1","title":"The Federalist Papers","text":"whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice","work":"The Federalist Papers","author":"Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay","url":"/works/the-federalist-papers/#the-federalist-papers-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-federalist-papers-q2","title":"The Federalist Papers","text":"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary","work":"The Federalist Papers","author":"Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay","url":"/works/the-federalist-papers/#the-federalist-papers-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-federalist-papers-q3","title":"The Federalist Papers","text":"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition","work":"The Federalist Papers","author":"Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay","url":"/works/the-federalist-papers/#the-federalist-papers-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-founding-documents-q1","title":"The Founding Documents","text":"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness","work":"The Founding Documents","author":"Continental Congress and United States Constitutional Convention","url":"/works/the-founding-documents/#the-founding-documents-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-founding-documents-q2","title":"The Founding Documents","text":"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America","work":"The Founding Documents","author":"Continental Congress and United States Constitutional Convention","url":"/works/the-founding-documents/#the-founding-documents-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-gay-science-q1","title":"The Gay Science","text":"God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him","work":"The Gay Science","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/the-gay-science/#the-gay-science-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"golden-legend-popular-saints-q1","title":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","text":"And when the holy man Nicholas knew hereof he had great horror of this villainy, and threw by night secretly into the house of the man a mass of gold wrapped in a cloth","work":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","author":"Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton","url":"/works/golden-legend-popular-saints/#golden-legend-popular-saints-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"golden-legend-popular-saints-q2","title":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","text":"St. Valentine, friend of our Lord and priest of great authority, was at Rome","work":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","author":"Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton","url":"/works/golden-legend-popular-saints/#golden-legend-popular-saints-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"golden-legend-popular-saints-q3","title":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","text":"Saint George said to them, \"Doubt not. Believe in God and Jesus Christ, and be baptized, and I shall slay the dragon","work":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","author":"Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton","url":"/works/golden-legend-popular-saints/#golden-legend-popular-saints-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"golden-legend-popular-saints-q4","title":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","text":"The child answered: \"Marvel thee nothing, Christopher, for thou hast not only borne all the world upon thee, but thou hast borne him that created and made all the world upon thy shoulders","work":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","author":"Jacobus de Voragine; William Caxton","url":"/works/golden-legend-popular-saints/#golden-legend-popular-saints-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"golden-legend-popular-saints-q5","title":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","text":"The king established a church there in honor of Our Lady and of Saint George, in which there flows to this day a fountain of living water that heals sick people who drink from it","work":"The Golden Legend: Popular Saints","author":"Jacobus de Voragine; 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the wheel of Ixion stands still","work":"The World as Will and Representation","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/the-world-as-will-and-representation/#the-world-as-will-and-representation-q8"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-world-as-will-and-representation-q9","title":"The World as Will and Representation","text":"music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason","work":"The World as Will and Representation","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/the-world-as-will-and-representation/#the-world-as-will-and-representation-q9"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-world-as-will-and-representation-q10","title":"The World as Will and Representation","text":"Thus its life swings like a pendulum backwards and forwards between pain and ennui","work":"The World as Will and Representation","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/the-world-as-will-and-representation/#the-world-as-will-and-representation-q10"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-world-as-will-and-representation-q11","title":"The World as Will and Representation","text":"All satisfaction, or what is commonly called happiness, is always really and essentially only _negative_, and never positive","work":"The World as Will and Representation","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/the-world-as-will-and-representation/#the-world-as-will-and-representation-q11"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-world-as-will-and-representation-q12","title":"The World as Will and Representation","text":"Far from being denial of the will, suicide is a phenomenon of strong assertion of will","work":"The World as Will and Representation","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/the-world-as-will-and-representation/#the-world-as-will-and-representation-q12"},{"type":"quote","id":"the-world-as-will-and-representation-q13","title":"The World as Will and Representation","text":"It is starvation, voluntarily chosen on the ground of extreme asceticism","work":"The World as Will and Representation","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","url":"/works/the-world-as-will-and-representation/#the-world-as-will-and-representation-q13"},{"type":"quote","id":"thus-spoke-zarathustra-q1","title":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","text":"Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD","work":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/thus-spoke-zarathustra/#thus-spoke-zarathustra-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"thus-spoke-zarathustra-q2","title":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","text":"I TEACH YOU THE SUPERMAN. Man is something that is to be surpassed. What have ye done to surpass man","work":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/thus-spoke-zarathustra/#thus-spoke-zarathustra-q2"},{"type":"quote","id":"thus-spoke-zarathustra-q3","title":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","text":"Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss","work":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/thus-spoke-zarathustra/#thus-spoke-zarathustra-q3"},{"type":"quote","id":"thus-spoke-zarathustra-q4","title":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","text":"I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star","work":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/thus-spoke-zarathustra/#thus-spoke-zarathustra-q4"},{"type":"quote","id":"thus-spoke-zarathustra-q5","title":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","text":"A little poison now and then: that maketh pleasant dreams. 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Once more","work":"Thus Spoke Zarathustra","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","url":"/works/thus-spoke-zarathustra/#thus-spoke-zarathustra-q15"},{"type":"quote","id":"timaeus-q1","title":"Timaeus","text":"The soul was first made by him—the elder to rule the younger; not in the order in which our wayward fancy has led us to describe them, but the soul first and afterwards the body","work":"Timaeus","author":"Plato","url":"/works/timaeus/#timaeus-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"troilus-and-criseyde-q1","title":"Troilus and Criseyde","text":"The double sorwe of Troilus to tellen","work":"Troilus and Criseyde","author":"Geoffrey Chaucer","url":"/works/troilus-and-criseyde/#troilus-and-criseyde-q1"},{"type":"quote","id":"twelfth-night-q1","title":"Twelfth Night","text":"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em","work":"Twelfth Night","author":"William 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A doubtful biography can still generate durable practices of mercy, identity, and care.","work":"St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony","author":"Pierre of Cambrai; Geel tradition","url":"/works/st-dymphna-and-geel/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"st-dymphna-and-geel:lesson:2","title":"Community care predates modern slogans","text":"Geel complicates the story that psychiatric community care begins only after modern asylum reform. Its model was devotional and local, but it raised questions that remain modern: housing, stigma, autonomy, supervision, and belonging.","work":"St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony","author":"Pierre of Cambrai; Geel tradition","url":"/works/st-dymphna-and-geel/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"st-dymphna-and-geel:lesson:3","title":"Trauma should not be softened into charm","text":"Dymphna's legend involves coercion, incestuous threat, flight, and murder. 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That ideal does not solve the economics of care, but it reveals a deep moral suspicion of profiting from another person's vulnerability.","work":"Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints","author":"Jacobus de Voragine; Byzantine miracle tradition","url":"/works/sts-cosmas-and-damian/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"sts-cosmas-and-damian:lesson:2","title":"Miracle surgery is still medical evidence of a kind","text":"The black-leg miracle is not evidence that transplantation occurred. It is evidence that medieval viewers could imagine diseased tissue, operative instruments, donor bodies, and postoperative bodily identity in surgical terms.","work":"Sts. 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The practical counsel is preparation and adaptability, together with the bleak admission that temperament rarely changes as fast as the times.","work":"The Prince","author":"Niccolo Machiavelli","url":"/works/the-prince/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-prince:lesson:4","title":"Appearance is a political resource","text":"Because most people judge by the eye and few by the hand, the prince must seem merciful, faithful and religious. Machiavelli treats reputation as something to be managed like an army. 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It asks readers to notice who gets to define suffering and what counts as proof.","work":"The Psychology of Dementia Praecox","author":"C. G. Jung","url":"/works/the-psychology-of-dementia-praecox/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-psychology-of-dementia-praecox:lesson:3","title":"The Psychology of Dementia Praecox complicates mind and body","text":"Whether medical, philosophical, or scientific, the work refuses a simple split between inner life and bodily condition. Its best passages make symptoms, emotions, habits, and values part of one historical field.","work":"The Psychology of Dementia Praecox","author":"C. G. Jung","url":"/works/the-psychology-of-dementia-praecox/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-psychology-of-dementia-praecox:lesson:4","title":"The Psychology of Dementia Praecox warns against easy progress stories","text":"The text may mark an advance, but it also carries assumptions later readers have reason to question. It is strongest when read as a record of struggle rather than as a straight road to the present.","work":"The Psychology of Dementia Praecox","author":"C. G. Jung","url":"/works/the-psychology-of-dementia-praecox/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-quiet-american:lesson:1","title":"Innocence is not harmless","text":"Pyle's danger lies in the union of personal decency with abstract political certainty. Greene teaches that innocence backed by power can evade responsibility for the bodies it harms.","work":"The Quiet American","author":"Graham Greene","url":"/works/the-quiet-american/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-quiet-american:lesson:2","title":"Detachment is a moral position","text":"Fowler's claim not to choose is itself a choice that protects his comfort. 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He must know different temperaments and avoid crushing the fragile.","work":"The Rule of St Benedict","author":"Benedict of Nursia","url":"/works/the-rule-of-st-benedict/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-rule-of-st-benedict:lesson:3","title":"Moderation can be radical","text":"Compared with heroic asceticism, Benedict’s realism about wine, sleep and illness is humane. Sustainability becomes a spiritual value.","work":"The Rule of St Benedict","author":"Benedict of Nursia","url":"/works/the-rule-of-st-benedict/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-satires-of-horace-and-persius:lesson:1","title":"Satire is moral medicine","text":"Both poets use ridicule to diagnose distorted desire. Horace prescribes proportion and self-knowledge; Persius prescribes harsher Stoic discipline.","work":"The Satires of Horace and Persius","author":"Horace and Persius","url":"/works/the-satires-of-horace-and-persius/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-satires-of-horace-and-persius:lesson:2","title":"Moderation is harder than it sounds","text":"Horace's charm lies in knowing that good advice is easy and practice difficult. His speaker is persuasive because he includes himself among the imperfect.","work":"The Satires of Horace and Persius","author":"Horace and Persius","url":"/works/the-satires-of-horace-and-persius/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-satires-of-horace-and-persius:lesson:3","title":"Bad language can reveal bad desires","text":"Persius treats inflated style and corrupt prayer as signs of spiritual illness. The poems teach that language is not a neutral covering over character; it exposes what a person worships.","work":"The Satires of Horace and Persius","author":"Horace and Persius","url":"/works/the-satires-of-horace-and-persius/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-satires-of-horace-and-persius:lesson:4","title":"Freedom is inward discipline","text":"Persius especially insists that legal or social status means little if appetite rules the mind. Roman satire turns slavery into an ethical metaphor, while remaining embedded in a slaveholding society.","work":"The Satires of Horace and Persius","author":"Horace and Persius","url":"/works/the-satires-of-horace-and-persius/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-scarlet-letter:lesson:1","title":"Public shame does not control meaning","text":"The Puritan community fixes the letter as punishment, but Hester's conduct changes what people think it means. Symbols live socially, and their meanings can be resisted by action.","work":"The Scarlet Letter","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","url":"/works/the-scarlet-letter/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-scarlet-letter:lesson:2","title":"Hidden guilt can become bodily illness","text":"Dimmesdale's secret is written through weakness, pain and self-punishment. Hawthorne makes moral concealment a mind-body crisis without reducing it to simple disease.","work":"The Scarlet Letter","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","url":"/works/the-scarlet-letter/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-scarlet-letter:lesson:3","title":"Revenge deforms the healer","text":"Chillingworth's medical intimacy becomes predatory because it serves vengeance rather than care. 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The defiant form, which ends in a rage against existence, sharpens the book's diagnosis of modern self-assertion.","work":"The Sickness Unto Death","author":"Soren Kierkegaard","url":"/works/the-sickness-unto-death/#lessons"},{"type":"lesson","id":"the-sickness-unto-death:lesson:4","title":"Faith as the opposite of sin","text":"Against moralism, the book claims that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith: resting transparently in the power that established the self. Sin is located in the will rather than in ignorance. 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