“With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn”
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter IX, Sec. 2
Context: With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through the roots, recover themselves and are restored to their former solid texture. But the strong air of winter compresses and solidifies them.
“If you love me, be patient. Look at the trees. Are they in a hurry to ripen their fruit?”
The Last Temptation of Christ (1951)
“Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent”
Source: The 48 Laws of Power
Speech delivered at the officers' club (June 16, 1959).
Principles of the 14th July Revolution (1959)
“And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.”
Canto 7, stanza 30
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book VII
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Posies for a Parlour, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), Absurd Creation
Context: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works.
Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity! And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is that which leaves it alone, certain of its limits and of its impending end. No doctrine tempts it. It awaits the ripening of the work and of life. <!-- 116
Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 76
