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“the transcendent gladness of grapes and wine so beneficial to body, soul and psyche’s interior design.”
― Euripides, Bakkhai

“I drink to our ruined house, to the dolor of my life, to our loneliness together; and to you I raise my glass, to lying lips that have betrayed us, to dead-cold pitiless eyes, and to the hard realities; that the world is brutal and coarse, that God, in fact, has not saved us.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“In the long run, nearly all of them must succeed, for the mob is eternally virtuous, and the only thing necessary to get it in favor of some new and super-oppressive law is to convince it that that law will be distasteful to the minority that it envies and hates.”
― H.L. Mencken, H. L. Mencken Seven Book Collection

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
― Thucydides