Source: The Devil Colony
“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.”
οὔ τοι ἅπασα κερδίων
φαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθει᾽ ἀτρεκής·
καὶ τὸ σιγᾶν πολλάκις ἐστὶ σοφώτατον ἀνθρώπῳ νοῆσαι.
Nemean 5, line 16-8; page 222. (483 BC?)
“All liars… lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.”
Source: The Memory of Love
Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
“Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.”
A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842).
(8th February 1823) Medallion Wafers: Head of Tyrtëus
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
“We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.”
Saepe aliud volumus, aliud optamus, et verum ne dis quidem dicimus.
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XCV: On the usefulness of basic principles, Line 2.
