The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. – Elias Canetti
In these pages the novelist should be able to find a striking verse to head his chapter, the raconteur add to his bon mots, the man of the world enrich his stock of maxims, the divine obtain some deep thought drawn from the wells of ancient learning. – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18