{"author":"Karen Essex","author_id":"Karen+Essex","total_quotes":20,"quotes":[{"text":"There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["destiny","fate","innermost-desires"],"id":14641,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["complex-people","simplicity"],"id":47045,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"Those on the decline always criticize those on the rise.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["kleopatra","power"],"id":131263,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"Think about it. For the sake of fame, men will risk great dangers. They put themselves in the jaws of death more than for their children. For fame, they will spend their money like water and work their fingers to the bone. Have you not observed this in your own home?","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["men","men-and-fame","men-and-greed"],"id":136438,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' 'My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me when compared to their welfare.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["children-as-treasures","greed-of-man","motherhood","pride","selfishness"],"id":162775,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"Are you ready to be rejoined for all time with your fellow gods? Oh yes, she explained, For not only was he a god, but so were all mortals gods in disguise, divorced from their divine lineage, their true identities, shrouded from their earthly selves. That is what she now revealed to him; He had been one of the rare humans who had not forgotten the connection with his divine self, and had lived like a god his mortal life.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["gaius-julius-caesar","gods","immortality","julius-caesar"],"id":164516,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"All my life I have known fear. But I have acted in spite of it. I urge you to do the same. Your father used to say that it is preferable to die rather than to live fearing death.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["fear","living-fearlessly","living-life-to-the-fullest"],"id":178912,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"I was a married woman! She said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her voice.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["birds-n-bees","marital-satisfaction","mothers-and-daughters","pleasure"],"id":191585,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["opinions-of-others","perfection","viewing-art","viewing-nature"],"id":257001,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"},{"text":"The strong do as they will while the weak suffer what they must.","author":"Karen Essex","tags":["attributed-julius-caesar","strong-vs-weak","suffering"],"id":277232,"author_id":"Karen+Essex"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}