“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”
Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
“Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.”
Line 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=pa1EAQAAIAAJ&q=%22citius+in+odium+venit+quam+dolor+qui+recens+con-solatorem+invenit+et+aliquos+ad+se+adducit+inveteratus+vero+deridetur+nec+inmerito%22&pg=PA436#v=onepage. <br class="br">Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
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Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
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“Every emotion is unique, just as the sound of the consolle when it becomes a woman is fascinating.”
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Source: prevale.net
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Variant: When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.
Source: Handle with Care
“It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
