The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatur...es are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists--in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, thou shalt go home, and we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks, and thou... shalt be welcome.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Did the first men who thought of fasting put themselves on this regimen on their physician's order, because they had indigestion?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Patrick! for a hundred years The gentle Niamh was my wife;... But now two things devour my life; The things that most of all I hate: Fasting and prayers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »