Chronic remorse as all the moralists are agreed is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm some for adventure some from fear of weakness some from fear of censure some for love of slaughter in imagination learning later … some in fear learning love of slaughter; Died some pro patria non dulce non et decor . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old mens lies the unbelieving came home home to a lie.
[about him:] It is rare to find learned men who are clean do not stink and have a sense of humour.
Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become relatively the cleanest thing?
In science read by preference the newest works; in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
The sun too penetrates into privies but is not polluted by them.
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Chronic remorse as all the moralists are agreed is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm some for adventure some from fear of weakness some from fear of censure some for love of slaughter in imagination learning later … some in fear learning love of slaughter; Died some pro patria non dulce non et decor . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old mens lies the unbelieving came home home to a lie.
Neurotics build castles in the air psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
A classic is a book that doesn?t have to be written again.