“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.”
As quoted by Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, iii. 26
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Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
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.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 16, 5.
Letters, Book VIII
Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) Italian composer
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.”
Bion of Borysthenes (-325–-246 BC) ancient greek philosopher
As quoted by Seneca, On Tranquility of the Mind
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna
[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.”
Robin Hobb book Fool's Assassin
Source: Fool's Assassin
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
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
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