“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 633
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Europa, Eurabia and the Last man
“Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 633
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Kofi Annan (1938–2018) 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Nobel lecture (2001)
Context: We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further — we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all — in pain as in prosperity — has gripped young and old.
Geert Wilders (1963) Dutch politician
Mr Wilders's contribution to the parliamentary debate on Islamic activism, 2007-09-06, Speech before the Dutch Parliament, Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/20080614074737/http://www.groepwilders.com/website/details.aspx?ID=44, <br class="br">2000s
“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise
Source: This Side of Paradise
Walter Besant (1836–1901) English novelist and historian
The Fascination of London: Holborn and Bloomsbury (with Geraldine Mitton), 1903 http://books.google.com/books?id=SqAKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR18, p. 18
“The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.”
Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) American musician, poet
"The Marshes of Glynn" (1878).
Poetry
“Teach us…… that we may feel the importance of every day, of every hour, as it passes.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Oriana Fallaci (1929–2006) Italian writer
Sono quattr' anni che parlo di nazismo islamico, di guerra all' Occidente, di culto della morte, di suicidio dell' Europa. Un' Europa che non è più Europa ma Eurabia e che con la sua mollezza, la sua inerzia, la sua cecità, il suo asservimento al nemico si sta scavando la propria tomba.
"Il nemico che trattiamo da amico", in Corriere della Sera (15 September 2006)
“Every man's last day is fixed.
Lifetimes are brief and not to be regained,
For all mankind. But by their deeds to make
Their fame last: that is labor for the brave.”
Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus
Omnibus est vitae; sed famam extendere factis,
Hoc virtutis opus.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Lines 467–469 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Argument http://books.google.com/books?id=JHguFYrTEQ0C&q=&quot;We+are+not+won+by+arguments+that+we+can+analyse+but+by+tone+and+temper+by+the+manner+which+is+the+man+himself&quot;&pg=PA329#v=onepage <br class="br">The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XX - First Principles