Designedly fantastic in suggestion of details, “Utopia” is the work of a scholar who had read Plato’s “Republic,”
“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
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“He doesn’t deserve it, my heart protests.
All the better, Aloysius whispers back.”
― The Sinking City
All the better, Aloysius whispers back.”
― The Sinking City
“Feeling the desire to help is quite different from feeling that you ought to help wether you want to or not.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“But since a Prince should know how to use the beast's nature wisely, he ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; for the lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.”
― The Prince
― The Prince
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