Nepot Quotes

#1. Jerome says (Ep. ad Nepot. lii): Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being a nobody has become a celebrity.

Thomas Aquinas

#2. As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.

Peter J. Carroll

#3. Loss of reputation and the regard of our fellow persons is in any society, from Iceland to Malaysia, a terrible blow to the spirit. It is worse than being penniless and more cutting than the blades of enemies.

Paulette Jiles

#4. Guild doesn't like me."
"That's true."
"He doesn't like you, ether."
"That is mystifying.

Derek Landy

#5. The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

Alain De Botton

#6. Do they care about Literature and Art? That is the most important when you come to think of it. Literature and Art. Most important.

E. M. Forster

#7. Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

Walter M. Miller Jr.