Beast Quote by Plutarch

Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to…

— Empedocles

“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they…

— Aristotle

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.

— Diogenes Laertius

“And Pandora pointed out to Epimetheus that he neither had wings nor wheels & so he should therefore not expect that of her also.And…

— Nicholas Chong

“Now left to man's ingratitude he lay, Unhoused, neglected in the public way; And where on heaps the rich manure was spread, Obscene with…

— Homer

“You know who I am,” Manon said, gazing into those endless black eyes, not giving one inch to fear or doubt. “I am Manon…

— Sarah J. Maas

“    So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd   In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward EVE   Address'd his way, not with indented wave,   Prone on the…

— John Milton

“This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without…

— Plutarch

“If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic force disappear…

— Gene Wolfe

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the…

— Neil Gaiman

Is it any wonder the power this man held over me - this man who did not run from his demons like most of…

— Rick Yancey

“This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without…

— Peter Ackroyd