Karen Essex Quotes

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

One must either rule side by side or be subdued entirely.

You must never deprive the people of their belief in the power of the gods, and you must never deprive yourself of it either.

Once you've spent a winter buried in the Alpine snow foraging for food, it's hard to complain over heat.

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.

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?

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 thei...

I am now satisfied of what I always though--which is how much more women can do if they set about it then men. I will lay any bet that had you been here, you would not have got half as much on board a...

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.

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 eve...

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.

The rich rarely give a black dog for a white monkey, my friend. It's the way of the world.

Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.

She knew that it was not smart to address her concerns about money directly, for men despised women who confronted them in this way. She knew that the smart wife, especially one no longer willing to p...

It is a woman's burden to suffer the machinations and destruction of men.

Ho personalmente sezionato la lingua, e benché non abbia trovato muscoli specifici per i pettegolezzi, questo sembra lo scopo principale di quell'organo-almeno a corte.

The people call it a miracle; the scientists call it invention. But the invention is miraculous, is it not?

It is not that I do not approve. Whatever a man's passion, he must pursue them, unless they offend God.

In the beginning, there was the voice.That was how it began on that first evening, with a masculine voice calling out to me in my sleep; a disembodied voice slithering into my dream, a voice of deep t...

With eerie slowness, his finger moved down my neck to the breastbone and across my chest until it reached my nipple. Then something extraordinary happened. He held it there, barely moving but sending...