A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
— John Steinbeck, /Travels with Charley: In Search of America/ (1997) p38
What was silent in the father speaks in the son
What was silent in the father speaks in the son; and often I have found the son the unveiled secret of the father.
— Nietzsche, /Thus Spake Zarathustra/ Part II:7: The Tarantulas
Better a fornicator than an iconoclast, according to St John Damascene
It would be better for you to leave no brothel in this town unentered than to refuse to venerate our Lord and God Jesus Christ together with his own mother.
— St John of Damascus (transl. Andrew Louth) /On the Divine Images/ Treatise