…thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.

…they were intent on framing a 'Declaration of the Rights of Man'. Some were heard to mutter that the Assembly should write the constitution first, since rights exist in virtue of laws, but jurisprude...

…there’s nothing in this world that demands more caution than the truth. To tell the truth is like leeching one’s own heart...

…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.

…there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

…there was no better company for an especially personal revelation than the company of virtual strangers.

…there is rarely any rhyme or reason in suicides. They can be a cry for help gone wrong, or a punishment to those you’re leaving behind, or one fateful twenty-minute window when you lose your bearings...

…there is rapidly developing a soil shortage on your planet. That is, you are running out of good soil in which to grow your food. This is because soil needs time to reconstitute itself, and your corp...

…there is one thing, among many others, concerning knights errant that seems objectionable to me, and it is that when they find themselves about to embark on a great and perilous adventure, in which t...

…there is not a day of my life that I am not critiquing myself to see if my politics are borne out in the way that I live and the way that I talk and present myself.

…there is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old…

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

…there is faith and faith. One form of faith is actual practice—the rituals and so on—the other form of faith involves actually believing in it.

…there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.

…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.

…there are continually turning up in life moral and rational persons, sages and lovers of humanity who make it their object to live all their lives as morally and rationally as possible, to be, so to...

…the worst thing said about him is that he was uncurious.

…the worshipers here are not likely to kill one another, they all offer the same sacrifice, and how the fat spits and the carcasses sizzle as God in the sublime heavens inhales the odors of all this c...

…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.