The Mughal’s nature is such that they demand miracles, but if a miracle were to be performed by some upright follower of our religion, they would say that it had been brought about by magic and sorcery. They would strike him down with spears or would stone him to death.
—Fr. Antonio Monserrate, 1590
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God is alive. Magic is afoot.
—Leonard Cohen, 1966Appearances often are deceiving.
—Aesop, c. 550 BCI count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
—Virginia Woolf, 1921At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1850There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
—Elias Canetti, 1960Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385To cast aside obedience, and by popular violence to incite revolt, is treason, not against man only, but against God.
—Pope Leo XIII, 1885One of the things men should most strive to do is win a good reputation and see that no one questions it.
—Juan Manuel, 1335Honest commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
—Robert G. Ingersoll, 1882Time is a veil interposed between God and ourselves, as our eyelid is between our eye and the light.
—François-René de Chateaubriand, c. 1820