"He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men."

-- Patrick SÃ¼skind

#Heart Quotes #Men Quotes #Scent Quotes

“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”
“That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind”
“In the small town each citizen had done something in his own way to build the community. The town booster had a vision of the future which he tried to fulfill. The suburb dweller by contrast started with the future”
“B*tch: a reflection of peopleâ€™s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who wonâ€™t comply.”
“Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.”

Source : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”
“A spiritual law that few recognize is that our confession rules us. It is what we confess with our lips that really dominates our inner being.”

Source : F. F. Bosworth (2001). “Christ the Healer”, p.155, Chosen Books
“Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.154, e-artnow
“Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1859). “The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier”, p.185

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