“Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.”
Tears and Saints (1937)
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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“1577. Fools make Feasts, and wise Men eat them.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.”
Francois Mauriac (1885–1970) French author
Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian
Of Anger.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“Believe me, wise men don't say ‘I shall live to do that’, tomorrow's life is too late; live today.”
Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere ‘Vivam’:
Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
Martial book Epigrammata
I, 15.
Variant translations:
'I'll live to-morrow', 'tis not wise to say:
'Twill be too late to-morrow—live to-day.
Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say;
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Marcus Cato
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived.”
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
