Joaco

“As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.”
― Oakley Hall, Warlock

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
― John Steinbeck

“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian