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Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
“There’s not such thing as magic that does no harm.”
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N. K. Jemisin
,
book
The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 4 “Frustration” (watercolor) (p. 93)
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“He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.”
Hesiod
book
Works and Days
οἷ γ᾽ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων
ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη.
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe,
and evil counsel recoils on the counsellor. https://archive.org/stream/b24865898#page/432/mode/2up
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), lines 265-266
“My dignity asks him who does me no harm to do me no harm. Of him who harms me it asks nothing.”
Antonio Porchia
(1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Mi dignidad le pide a quien no me hace daño que no me haga daño, y a quien me hace daño no le pide nada.
Voces (1943)
“Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.”
Grant Morrison
(1960) writer
Popimage interview https://web.archive.org/web/20040803001942/http://www.popimage.com/content/grant20044.html
On magic
Context: All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.
“But little harm
That error does that turns to good at last.”
Marco Guazzo
(1480–1556) Italian historian
È poco male
Quel fallo poi che al fin in ben riesse.
Act V (Filarco).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 295.
Errori d’Amore
Aleister Crowley
(1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Article "The Worst Man in the World" in The Sunday Dispatch (2 July 1933); quoted in The Magical Revival (1972) by Kenneth Grant.
Context: Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature. The recoil upon those who practice it is terrific.
It is like looking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle. As far as the search goes, there is little fear of failure!
To practice black magic you have to violate every principle of science, decency, and intelligence. You must be obsessed with an insane idea of the importance of the petty object of your wretched and selfish desires.
I have been accused of being a "black magician." No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 28.