"Christianity has made of death a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan."

-- Ouida

#Christian Quotes #Gay Quotes #Pagan Quotes

“We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.”
“If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.”
“Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.”
“It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.”
“When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me its a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.”
“I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.”
“The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.”

Source : Mircea Eliade (2005). “The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History”, p.5, Princeton University Press
“Beauty is transient and changes with time.”

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