“Constant dripping hollows out a stone.”

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

So much wrong could religion induce.

The sum total of all sums total is eternal (meaning the universe).

Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

Truths kindle light for truths.

All life is a struggle in the dark.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they’re set, and where they’re moved around.

It’s easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

Fear holds dominion over mortality Only because, seeing in land and sky So much the cause whereof no wise they know, Men think Divinities are working there.

There is so much wrong with the world.

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

I feel like they’re talking about someone else we both know.

If every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

Also, I’d like to play an athlete again, while I’m still physically fit, or a musician, like Nat King Cole

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I’m pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

Of course, it’s always complicated to shoot a sex scene.

Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it.