Мост короля Людовика Святого. Мартовские иды. День Восьмой

Brother Juniper found that there was least to be learned from those who had been most closely associated with the subjects of his inquiry.

The discrepancy between faith and facts is greater than is generally assumed.

He added up the total for victims and compared it with the total for survivors, to discover that the dead were five times more worth saving.

"Oh, if we could go away to some island where the people would know you for yourself. And love you."
"You are fifty years old and you are still dreaming of such islands, Uncle Pio."

He divided the inhabitants of this world into tow groups, into those who had loved and those who had not. It was a horrible aristocracy, apparently, for those who had no capacity for love (or rather for suffering in love) could not be said to be alive, and certainly would not live again after their death.

a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain - he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep.

But such occasion of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, Camila's sincerity became less necessary.

Uncle Pio never exactly beat her, but her resorted to a sarcasm that had terrors of its own.

Everyone knew that he was working on some sort of memorial of the accident, and everyone was very helpful and misleading

Цезарь – тиран и как муж, и как правитель. Но вовсе не в том смысле, как другие тираны, которые скупятся дать свободу другим; просто он, будучи недосягаемо свободен сам, не представляет себе, как растет и проявляется свобода в других; поэтому он всегда ошибается и даст то слишком мало, то слишком много этой свободы.