Nathan McAllister

“Is it a simple form of madness to lose a hundred thousand sesterces, and not have a shirt to give to a shivering slave?”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet