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#mortals

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The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.


Aeschylus


#manifold #mortals #nowhere #same #seen

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.


George Eliot


#easily #glory #killing #life #mortals

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.


Desiderius Erasmus


#dissatisfied #envious #especially #evil #hearts

Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that eternally complex tapestry…each one resonated under the step of the dancing mad god, vibrating and sending little echoes of bravery, or hunger, or architecture, or argument, or cabbage or murder or concrete across the aether. The weft of starlings’ motivations connected to the thick, sticky strand of a young thief’s laugh. The fibres stretched taut and glued themselves solidly to a third line, its silk made from the angles of seven flying buttresses to a cathedral roof. The plait disappeared into the enormity of possible spaces. Every intention, interaction, motivation, every colour, every body, every action and reaction, every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, every toothache and flagstone, every emotion and birth and banknote, every possible thing ever is woven into that limitless, sprawling web. It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. It is a work of such beauty that my soul wept... ..I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.


China Miéville


#life-s-tapestry #spider #tapestry #the-fates #the-weaver

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.


Josiah Royce


#eyes #find #human #individuality #individuals

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#even #fear #great #help #made

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.


Sophocles


#does #live #mortals #nor #perish

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad.


Sophocles


#ancient #bad #before #call #cannot

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.


Sophocles


#gain #life #long #money #mortals

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.


Sidney Sheldon


#heaven #mortals #beauty






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