“[She] is not permitted to reveal as much as she is suffered to know.”
Book V, line 176 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
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Nec tantum prodere vati quantum scire licet.
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Marcus Annaeus Lucanus 58
Roman poet 39–65Related quotes
“Nakedness was dangerous to the social order, she thought, because it revealed too much reality.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 7, “What Is to Be Done?” (p. 395)
Une femme est d'une plus grande utilité pour notre vie si elle y est, au lieu d'un élément de bonheur, un instrument de chagrin, et il n'y en a pas une seule dont la possession soit aussi précieuse que celle des vérités qu'elle nous découvre en nous faisant souffrir.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"
She's Always a Woman.
Song lyrics, The Stranger (1977)
