Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Teles of Megara, fr. 2, On Self-Sufficiency
“Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves born by a current towards the open seas.”
The Divinisation of Our Activities, p. 72
The Divine Milieu (1960)
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French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881–1955Related quotes
“Let him who loves, where love success may find,
Spread all his sails before the prosp'rous wind;
But let poor youths who female scorn endure,
And hopeless burn, repair to me for cure.”
Siquis amat quod amare iuvat, feliciter ardens
Gaudeat, et vento naviget ille suo.
At siquis male fert indignae regna puellae,
Ne pereat, nostrae sentiat artis opem.
Ovid book Remedia amoris
Source: Remedia Amoris (The Cure for Love), Lines 13-16
“Far the horizon
Hove to the wind;
We're sailing the sea
To the Edge of the World.”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)
“It is easy to spread the sails to propitious winds, and to cultivate in different ways a rich soil, and to give lustre to gold and ivory, when the very raw material itself shines.”
Facile est ventis dare vela secundis,
Fecundumque solum varias agitare per artes,
Auroque atque ebori decus addere, cum rudis ipsa
Materies niteat.
Book III, line 26.
Astronomica
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Hugging the Shore, foreword (1983)
“Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 494)