Bjarne Amilon

“One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.”
― J.B. Morton

“Nunc fluens facit tempus,
nunc stans facit aeternitatum.

(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?”
― Augustine of Hippo, Select Letters

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984