Indra Szabo

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Simpla constatare că eşti prost nu e dovadă de inteligenţă. Îşi amintea de altfel că mulţi oameni mediocri recunoşteau aceasta şi n-aveau pretenţia de-a fi compătimiţi sau admiraţi. Îşi cunoşteau lungul nasului. Aveau bun simţ, dar, evident, conştiinţa că nu-s deştepţi nu le ţinea loc de inteligenţă.”
― Ionel Teodoreanu, Drumuri