“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Styxx
“But if we discard this definition of a people, and, assuming another, say that a people is an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of their love, then, in order to discover the character of any people, we have only to observe what they love. Yet whatever it loves, if only it is an assemblage of reasonable beings and not of beasts, and is bound together by an agreement as to the objects of love, it is reasonably called a people; and it will be a superior people in proportion as it is bound together by higher interests, inferior in proportion as it is bound together by lower.”
— Aurelius Augustinus, book The City of God
XIX, 24
The City of God (early 400s)
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