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All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Fear Living Fearlessly Living Life To The Fullest

Hungry men are not known for their patience or their kindness.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Hunger Patience Kindness Pestilence War

What is the difference between freedom and hedonism? Between freedom and insanity?

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Karen Essex Freedom Freedom Of Speech Hedonism Insanity

You see, Great Caesar. she said, this is the way in which mortals retain the power of the divine---in every earthly choice they make. 'But it's a paradox.' he said. 'Human beings are in control of everything and nothing at all.' 'Yes, she answered, her coy smile spreading joy across her lovely face. It is that simple.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Choices Human Condition Humanity

Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Kleopatra Power

There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?

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Karen Essex Destiny Fate Innermost Desires

Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Men Men And Fame Men And Greed

The strong do as they will while the weak suffer what they must.

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Karen Essex Attributed Julius Caesar Strong Vs Weak Suffering

No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community upon him. (Socrates)

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Karen Essex Crime Evil Evil People Rational Thought Socrates

I am more human than rational.

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Karen Essex Emotions Human Nature Humanity Rational Thought

Can you not see that we still might win? We lost a battle, not a war.

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Karen Essex Courage In Battle Positive Attitude Valour

He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Children As Treasures Greed Of Man Motherhood Pride Selfishness

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Dracula Karen Essex Mina Harker Regret Revisiting The Past

Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Opinions Of Others Perfection Viewing Art Viewing Nature

I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Birds N Bees Marital Satisfaction Mothers And Daughters Pleasure

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

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Karen Essex Chatter Hard Work Talking Too Much Wasting Time

Are you ready to be rejoined for all time with your fellow gods? Oh yes, she explained, For not only was he a god, but so were all mortals gods in disguise, divorced from their divine lineage, their true identities, shrouded from their earthly selves. That is what she now revealed to him; He had been one of the rare humans who had not forgotten the connection with his divine self, and had lived like a god his mortal life.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Gaius Julius Caesar Gods Immortality Julius Caesar

The merciful man is rarely victorious. One's enemies are like snakes; though one may learn to handle them, they are always poisonous.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Enemies Kleopatra Victory

Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Complex People Simplicity

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

~ Karen Essex

Karen Essex Building Monuments Immortality Men Vs Women Seeking Fame
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