Decades had passed, and he was old, inured to strangeness. Nothing had been confirmed except a long-suppressed suspicion of men’s selfishness.

Mary Sativa, The Lovers’ Crusade

Hermetic quote Sativa Crusade selfishness

Consider also:

  1. “They rendered visible the invisible, and were concerned with possessing the world.”
  2. “The past is the cosmopolitan’s mother country, the universal fatherland, an endless library.”
  3. Scarlet Traces
  4. Rangatiratanga
  5. “I saw the petty, the quarrelsome, the selfish, – they were like men, O Lord, they were even like unto men. I saw Thee in these.”