“Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Variant: The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
“The event proves well the wisdom of her [Phyllis'] course.”
Heroides (The Heroines)
Original: (la) Exitus acta probat.
The end proves the acts (were done), or the result is a test of the actions; Ovid's line 85 full translation:
Variant translations: The ends justify the means. All's well that ends well. NB: the end does not always equal the goal.
II, 85
“Carmina proveniunt animo deducta sereno.”
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.
I, i, 39
Tristia (Sorrows)
“Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.”
I see better things, and approve, but I follow worse.
Book VII, 20
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
“Beauty's a frail flower.”
Forma bonum fragile est.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, line 113 (tr. James Michie)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Plenty has made me poor.”
Inopem me copia fecit.
Book III, 466
Variant translation: Abundance makes me poor.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
“Love is a kind of warfare.”
Militiae species amor est.
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, line 233
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Yield to the opposer, by yielding you will obtain the victory.”
Ovid book Ars amatoria
Book II, line 197
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.”
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
Book XV, 165 (as translated by John Dryden); on the transmigration of souls.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.”
Carmina proveniunt animo deducta sereno.
I, i, 39
Tristia (Sorrows)
“We're slow to believe what wounds us.”
Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
II, 9-10; translation by A. S. Kline
Heroides (The Heroines)
“They bear punishment with equanimity who have earned it.”
Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
Book II, vii, 12
Amores (Love Affairs)