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Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1
Context: In a despotic government, the ultimate principle of order issues from the inclinations of the despot himself. Yet despotism is not a system in which justice is entirely meaningless: it has generally prevailed in highly traditional societies where custom is king and the prevailing terms of justice are accepted as part of the natural order of things. Each person fits into a divinely recognized scheme. Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little. Everything depends on the wisdom of the ruler.
“It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“Wisdom sits alone
Topmost in Heaven.”
The Scholar of Thibet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition