“Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.”
Elfriede Jelinek book The Piano Teacher
P 23
The Piano Teacher (1988)
“Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate.”
Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), lines 353; (Lycus)
Alternate translation: To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power (translator unknown).
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Seneca the Younger225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
“For 'tis impossible
Hate to return with love.”
Che amar chi t'odia, ell'è impossibil cosa.
Polinice, II, 4; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 464.
R. Scott Bakker book The Judging Eye
TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
Source: The Judging Eye (2009)
“Not only hating David, but the king.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. I, line 512.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“Strepsiades: ‘Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.”
tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, p. 350 http://books.google.com/books?id=9vpxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Tis+the+Whirlwind%2C+that+has+driven+out+Jupiter+and+is+King+now%22 <br class="br">Clouds (423 BC)
“5068. 'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
John Newton (1725–1807) Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer
Variant: Thou art coming to a King,
large petitions with thee bring,
for His grace and pow'r are such
none can ever ask too much.
Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938) Poet, academic, literary critic
Emblems of Love (1912)
“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
William Wycherley The Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer (1677), Act I, scene 1.
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
Context: The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; "'tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.