“One must try to keep a sensible perspective and not take oneself too seriously.”
John Banville (1945) Irish writer
Fully Booked: Q & A with John Banville (2012)
“Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.”
tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278 http://books.google.com/books?id=6fxxAAAAIAAJ&q=%22one+must+not+try+to+trick+misfortune,+but+resign+oneself+to+it+with+good+grace%22 <br class="br">tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Thes.+198 <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae, line 198-199 <br class="br">Thesmophoriazusae (411 BC)
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