we often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us. - Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, 'These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever of the opposite of a bird of prey must be good?', there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument - though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, 'Wehave nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.