If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.
Jack VanceI am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
Jack VanceStichwörter: fantasy dying-earth cugel vance
While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.
Jack VanceLaw cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.
Jack VanceStichwörter: law
The Silver Samarsanda stood above the Jardeen, behind a line of tall pencil cypress: an irregular bulk of masonry, plastered and whitewashed, with a wide, many-slanted roof of mossy tiles. Beside the entrance five colored lanterns hung in a vertical line: deep green, a dark, smoky scarlet, a gay light green, violet, and once more dark scarlet; and at the bottom, slightly to the side, a small, steady yellow lamp, the purport of all being: Never neglect the wonder of conscious existence, which too soon comes to an end!
Jack VanceFreedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.
Jack VanceStichwörter: insightful
I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes.
Jack VanceAm I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Jack VanceUntil work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.
Jack VanceStichwörter: humor fantasy science-fiction
Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.
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