"Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Love Is Quotes #Men Quotes #Delight Quotes

“The enjoyments of elegant life you early chose to abandon, preferring to wander for many successive years over the rudest portions of Europe and Asia-regions new to Science-in the hope, happily realized, of winning new truths. By a rare union of favourable circumstances, and of personal qualifications equally rare, you have thus been enabled to become the recognized Interpreter and Historian (not without illustrious aid) of the Silurian Period.”

Source : John Jeremiah Bigsby (1868). “Thesaurus Siluricus: The Flora and Fauna of the Silurian Period, with Addenda (from Recent Acquisitions)”, p.3
“Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.”
“There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.”
“You don't have enough talent to win on talent alone.”
“They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity”
“And it came to Marcus suddenly that slaves very seldom whistled. They might sing, if they felt like it or if the rhythm helped their work, but whistling was in some way different; it took a free man to make the sort of noise Esca was making.”

Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle of the Ninth”, p.479, Oxford University Press - Children

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