"Is not living at all not better than living badly?"

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Source : Fragment, quoted in H Diels and W Kranz (eds) Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (1952), vol.2, 385, no.23.

Critias

“If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.”
“Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.”

Source : Ariana Franklin (2007). “Mistress of the Art of Death”, p.299, Penguin
“They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.”

Source : Margaret Kennedy (2011). “Lucy Carmichael”, p.8, Faber & Faber
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg". "Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)", December 26, 1957.
“O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 438, 1895.
“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.”
“Girls are always saying things like, â€œIâ€™m so unhappy that Iâ€™m going to overdose on aspirin,â€ but theyâ€™d be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.”

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