
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
Source: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
Note to Stanza 28 part 1
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”
Source: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
“But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence and hold it fast than love; nothing is more foreign to that end than fear.”
Omnium autem rerum nec aptius est quicquam ad opes tuendas ac tenendas quam diligi nec alienius quam timeri.
Book II, section 7; translation by Walter Miller
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”
Omnium autem rerum, ex quibus aliquid adquiritur, nihil est agri cultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius.
Book I, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
“There's nothing better than cake but more cake.”
“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
“There is nothing better than making love under the eyes of the stars.”
Original: Non c'è nulla di migliore che far l'amore sotto gli occhi delle stelle.
Source: prevale.net
“Nothing was better for you than humiliation, for there was nothing you felt more deeply.”
J. Agee, trans. (1989), p. 130
Das Geheimherz der Uhr [The Secret Heart of the Clock] (1987)
Mussolini in conversation with the Austrian ambassador to Italy in 1932 over the then-predicted rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany. As quoted in Esau's Tears: Modern Anti-Semitism and the Rise of the Jews, Albert S. Lindemann, Cambridge University Press (1997), p. 466
1930s