“Fire tests Gold”

— Cassandra Clare

City of Lost Souls

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Ignis aurum probat

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American author 1973

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“Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.”
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes uiros.

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De Providentia (On Providence): cap. 5, line 9
Alternate translation: Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. (translator unknown).
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“Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”

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“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace
to extract the silver from the dross.
This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.”

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“I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.”

Romain Gary (1914–1980) French writer and diplomat

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Context: Gari in Russian means "burn!"… I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

“Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.”

Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist

“God became man in order to make me God; The soul becomes like gold that becomes purer as it is fired, all dross being cast out. Having come to the point of twenty-four carats, gold cannot be purified any further; and this is what happens to the soul in the fire of God’s lovetherefore I want to be changed completely into pure God”

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Ibid., P.109.

“The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the Sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes
Like all that grows or leaps… so is the heart
More powerful than all dust.”

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“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”

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“She who can stand against an armament
Of gold and silver and still pure remain,
Would find a thousand swords' attack less dire
A peril, or survive in raging fire.”

Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso

Che quella che da l'oro e da l'argento
Difende il cor di pudicizia armato,
Tra mille spade via più facilmente
Difenderallo, e in mezzo al fuoco ardente.
Canto XLIII, stanza 68 (tr. B. Reynolds)
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“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”

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