As quoted by Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, iii. 26
“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Scyrii, Frag. 510.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“For there is a certain luxury in grief; especially when we pour out our sorrows in the bosom of a friend, who will approve, or, at least, pardon our tears.”
Est enim quaedam etiam dolendi voluptas, praesertim si in amici sinu defleas, apud quem lacrimis tuis vel laus sit parata vel venia.
Letter 16, 5.
Letters, Book VIII
Aspettate fino alla sera prima del giorno fissato per la rappresentazione. Nessuna cosa eccita più l'estro come la necessità, la presenza d'un copista, che aspetta il vostro lavoro e la ressa d'un impresario in angustie, che si strappa a ciocche i capelli. A tempo mio in Italia tutti gli impresari erano calvi a trent'anni.
From an undated letter, published in Luigi Rognoni Gioacchino Rossini (1968) p. 337. Translation from Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols (eds.) Composers on Music (1997) p. 67.
On the right time to write an overture.
“It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.”
As quoted by Seneca, On Tranquility of the Mind
[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 220-221]
“I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else.”
Source: Fool's Assassin
This seems to be a paraphrase sumarizing a speech at the Carrie Tuggle Institute, Birmingham, as described in Thinking Black: Some of the Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind (1997) by DeWayne Wickham
Misattributed
