
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
Variant: He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
Variant: He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a God.
“When we intended to enjoy being cruel, we must transform our victim into either a beast or a god.”
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
“No wild beasts are so dangerous to men as Christians are to one another.”
As quoted by Ammianus Marcellinus, as translated in Barbarians: An Alternative Roman History (2006) by Terry Jones, p. 205 ISBN 9780563539162
General sources
“The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.”
“…the wild flowers blooming in hushed solitude
Start not at the whispering, 'tis but the breeze”
from A Canadian Summer Evening
“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in.”
Les anciens Romains élevaient des prodiges d'architecture pour faire combattre des bêtes.
Letter addressed to "un premier commis" [name unknown] (20 June 1733), from Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance [Garnier frères, Paris, 1880], vol. I, letter # 343 (p. 354)
Citas
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”