1. Odi et amo. Quare id faciem fortasse requiris. Nescio sed fieri sentio excrucior. --Gaius Catullus (I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you might ask? I don't know, but I feel it happening, and I am tormented.)
2. There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go. --Tennessee Williams
3. If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up. --Brigham Young
4. "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." 'I should have called it something you somehow hadn't to deserve." --Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man
5. Cause timendi est nescire. --Seneca (The cause of fear is not knowing.)
Showing posts with label Seneca. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seneca. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Five more quotes
The next five. These are slightly more embarrassing - I can only remember that this is what struck me before I turned 20.
Love is like a big ball of mustard - you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. --Molly Jorgensen
Molly is now Molly Oliver and has been married for over ten years. She's still my best source of comforting aphorisms.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amen to that. I think manners are the rules by which we make others feel at ease, which makes me suspect that most people have more than a smidge of social anxiety.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. --Seneca the Younger
Seneca served as the tutor and then main advisor to the emperor Nero. He helped Nero kill the Dowager Emperess Agrippina, his mother, and in the midst of acting as Nero's consiglieri, Seneca wrote tragic, grisly plays and high-minded philosophy. He died when he disagreed with Nero one too many times and Nero ordered him to commit suicide. I think Seneca knew what he was talking about here.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. --Winston Churchill
Very comforting to a geeky girl - finally an arena I felt comfortable competing in.
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You can always tell a real friend: when you have made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel that you've done a permanent job. --Lawrence J. Peter.
Aw, I love that one. And here I need to reference Molly again.
Love is like a big ball of mustard - you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. --Molly Jorgensen
Molly is now Molly Oliver and has been married for over ten years. She's still my best source of comforting aphorisms.
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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Amen to that. I think manners are the rules by which we make others feel at ease, which makes me suspect that most people have more than a smidge of social anxiety.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. --Seneca the Younger
Seneca served as the tutor and then main advisor to the emperor Nero. He helped Nero kill the Dowager Emperess Agrippina, his mother, and in the midst of acting as Nero's consiglieri, Seneca wrote tragic, grisly plays and high-minded philosophy. He died when he disagreed with Nero one too many times and Nero ordered him to commit suicide. I think Seneca knew what he was talking about here.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. --Winston Churchill
Very comforting to a geeky girl - finally an arena I felt comfortable competing in.
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You can always tell a real friend: when you have made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel that you've done a permanent job. --Lawrence J. Peter.
Aw, I love that one. And here I need to reference Molly again.
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