I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Arthur Schopenhauer

However much the plays and the masks on the world's stage may change it is always the same actors who appear. We sit together and talk and grow excited, and our eyes glitter and our voices grow shriller: just so did others sit and talk a thousand years ago: it was the same thing, and it was the same people: and it will be just so a thousand years hence. The contrivance which prevents us from perceiving this is time.

reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alter of monogamy