"He is life's liberating force. He is release of limbs and communion through dance. He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep! When his blood bursts from the grape and flows across tables laid in his honor to fuse with our blood, he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadows of ivy-cool sleep."

-- Euripides

#Laughter Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.”

Source : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño (1999). “I, Juan De Pareja”, Turtleback Books
“True self-love and social are the same.”
“As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.”
“The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.”
“I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.”
“If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.”
“Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.”
“In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.”

Source : Pluck and Luck (1925)

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