Friedrich von Logau Quotes

Friedrich von Logau was a German poet and epigrammatist of the Baroque era.

✵ 1605 – 24. July 1655
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Famous Friedrich von Logau Quotes

“Sinngedichte II, 4, 90, Vers 7f.”

Friedrich von Logau

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Variant: Sinngedichte III, 3, 81.

“Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.”

Friedrich von Logau

The best Medicine. (Sinngedichte, I, 4, 41, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

“Der gelbe Kern der Erde, das Gold, hat alle Macht,
Daß alles sonst für ihme wie Schalen wird geacht.”

Friedrich von Logau

Deutsche Sinn-Getichte (1654) III, 5, 11.
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“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.”

Friedrich von Logau

Retribution. (Sinngedichte III, 2, 24, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Compare: "God's mill grinds slow, but sure", George Herbert. Jacula Prudentum. Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such whom God is slow to punish".

“Sinngedichte III, 10, 8.”

Friedrich von Logau

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