Here lies the body of this world,
Whose soul alas to hell is hurled.
This golden youth long since was past,
Its silver manhood went as fast,
An iron age drew on at last;
'Tis vain its character to tell,
The several fates which it befell,
What year it died, when 'twill arise,
We only know that here it lies.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life as graphically as the human body.
Naguib mahfouz (in Palace of desire)
Religion is recognized by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius annaeus seneca (via edward gibbon)
Comparison is the thief of joy.
theodore roosevelt
I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.
Epicurean Epitaph
My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.
william james
Born from the Black, He wormed through the World. He dove into Death, Vanishing back into the Black.
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