“"I distrusted him from the start! Still, who could imagine such protean depravity?"
Bunderwal, the supercargo, concurred. "Cugel, while plausible, nonetheless is a bit of a scoundrel."”
Source: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 2, section 2, "Lausicaa"
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De Abaitua interview (1998)

“Who could tell such things and still refrain from tears?”
Quis talia fando
Temperet a lacrimis?
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 6 and 8 (tr. Fagles)

Du pouvoir de transformer un homme en chose en le faisant mourir procède un autre pouvoir, et bien autrement prodigieux, celui de faire une chose d'un homme qui reste vivant.
in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941)