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"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
"I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot."
— Roman Payne
— Roman Payne
"soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda. "
— Catullus (Carmina)
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda. "
— Catullus (Carmina)
"Cinta itu mensucikan akal, mengenyahkan kekhawatiran, memunculkan keberanian, mendorong berpenampilan rapi, membangkitkan selera makan, menjaga akhlak mulia, membangkitkan semangat, mengenakan wewangian, memperhatikan pergaulan yang baik, serta menjaga adab dan kepribadian. Tapi cinta juga merupakan ujian bagi orang-orang yang shaleh dan cobaan bagi ahli ibadah."
— Ibnu Qayyim Al-Jauziyah (Taman Orang-orang Jatuh Cinta dan Memendam Rindu)
— Ibnu Qayyim Al-Jauziyah (Taman Orang-orang Jatuh Cinta dan Memendam Rindu)
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"I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side."
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
"Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still."
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
"I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two."
— Catullus
— Catullus
"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman."
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
— Roman Payne (Rooftop Soliloquy)
"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I’ve never known war, I am wanderer. I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."
— Roman Payne (Cities & Countries)
— Roman Payne (Cities & Countries)
""I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.""
— Catullus
— Catullus
"Paradoxul evident pe care îl prezintă psihologia poporului român, acest paradox subtil, aproape imposibil de intuit din afară, face din noi unul dintre cele mai necunoscute, sau mai prost cunoscute , popoare ale Europei. Românii sunt poporul cel mai supus, cel mai de nerăsculat, nu pentru că se lasă dominaţi de ideile celor ce îi stăpânesc, dimpotrivă, pentru că nici o ideologie nu-i seduce, nici chiar revolta, care-i întotdeauna o ideologie. Faţă de tot ce i se spune (şi cu cât se încăpăţinează mai mult), el păstrează o distanţă ironică, din ce în ce mai refractară. Această impertiabilitate funciară la entuziasm şi fanatism îl face în acelaşi timp şi de necucerit, şi de nerevoltat. Şi asta pentru că, pe de o parte, orice revoltă presupune un elan mai mult sau mai puţin entuziast, fanatic, iar românul nu este nu numai capabil de fanatism, ci, mai mult, fanatismul îl repugnă şi – mai mult chiar – i se pare ridicol şi îi trezeşte hazul; pe de altă parte, pentru că teroarea care pare, văzută din afară, insuportabilă, ricoşează de realitate pe suprafaţa alunecoasă a ironiei populare, nereuşind să pătrundă în interior, nereuşind să realizete o presiune interioară pe măsura grozăviei ei istorice. Deci, revolta nu se produce, pentru că nu are condiiţii subiective (predispoziţie psihologică, dar nici obiective (impactul real asupra indivizilor). Astfel se ajunge la paradoxala situaţie în care un popor, care nu poate fi manipulat, poate totuşi fi guvernat cu uşurinţă. Libertatea interioară se transformă în condiţie şi chiar în unealta a supunerii exterioare."
— Blandiana Ana (Sertarul cu aplauze)
— Blandiana Ana (Sertarul cu aplauze)
"It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit."
— Harold Laski
— Harold Laski
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC Attributed
— Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC Attributed
"There are twin Gates of Sleep. One, they say, is called the Gate of Horn and it offers easy passage to all true shades. The other glistens with ivory, radiant, flawless, but through it the dead send false dreams up toward the sky. And here Anchises, his vision told in full, escorts his son and Sibyl both and shows them out now through the Ivory Gate."
— Virgil
— Virgil
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