“I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.”

Source: Death in Venice (1912), Ch. 5, as translated by David Luke

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German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

Melody Beattie (1948) American writer

“I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.”

William Joyce (1906–1946) British fascist and propaganda broadcaster

National Socialism Now, pamphlet issued by the National Socialist League c. 1938.

“Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread,”

Empedocles (-490–-430 BC) ancient Greek philosopher

tr. Phillip H. De Lacy and Benedict Einarson. Cf. full quotation at Leonard p. 54-55 https://books.google.com/books?id=omUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=false<br>fr. 115, as paraphrased in Plutarch's Moralia <br class="br">Purifications <br class="br">Context: A law there is, an oracle of Doom, Of old enacted by the assembled gods, That if a Daemon—such as live for ages— Defile himself with foul and sinful murder, He must for seasons thrice ten thousand roam Far from the Blest; such is the path I tread, I too a wanderer and exile from heaven.