Sami Ali

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo

“It is hard to believe, my dear Lucilius, how easily the charm of eloquence wins even great men away from the truth.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Repentance is the vomit of the soul.”
― Thomas Brooks

“It is a singular blessing, that nature has form'd the mind of man with the same happy backwardness and renitency against conviction, which is observed in old dogs—'of not learning new tricks.'

What a shuttlecock of a fellow would the greatest philosopher that ever existed be whisk'd into at once, did he read such books, and observe such facts, and think such thoughts, as would eternally be making him change sides!

Now, my father, as I told you last year, detested all this—He pick'd up an opinion, Sir, as a man in a state of nature picks up an apple.—It becomes his own—and if he is a man of spirit, he would lose his life rather than give it up.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman