strawbery cats

“All mankind rules its women, and we rule all mankind, but our women rule us.”
― Marcus Porcius Cato

“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― Yi Sang, The Wings

“A life, not a creed, would be its test; what a man does, not what he professes; what he is, not what he has.”
― Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

“νυκτὸς ἐρημαίης ἀλαώπιδος...

Of night, the lonely, with her sightless eyes.”
― Empedocles, The Fragments of Empedocles