“How senseless is the sordid love of gain;
Blind to all else the mind that's set on profit.”
Diphilus Athenian poet of New Comedy
Fragment 13
Fabulae Incertae
“It was senseless, as— I held my breath, feeling myself shiver with fear— as Billy's blindness was senseless.”
— Chaim Potok, book The Chosen
Reuven Malter when thinking about the death of Pres. Roosevelt
The Chosen (1967)
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