“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
Maxim 790
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
"Lines Written in Kensington Gardens" (1852), st. 10
“They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.”
Maxim 790
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Quoted in The Life of St. Gemma Galgani by her spiritual director Ven. Germanus, trans. A. M. O'Sullivan, 1999, p. 258.
“Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.”
No. LXIV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: Here's ivy! — take them, as I used to do
Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.
Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,
And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)
The fight against racism doesn't stop here (2013)
“All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ