Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
WHEN YOU GIVE ALMS, DO NOT LET YOUR LEFT HAND KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHT HAND IS DOING. —MATTHEW 6:3
Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
If any man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Letter of Paul to the Galatians, 6[.3].
lindaraquelita • A Catalog of Montaigne's Beam Inscriptions
“Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Jane Austen • Pride and Prejudice
Nowadays the use of that word without a prefix has been lost. 4 The ancients used to say “if I order” for “if I will have ordered.”* You need not believe me on that! Believe Virgil:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
He misses not much. SEBASTIAN No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
William Shakespeare • The Tempest
PORTIA The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty,
... See more