(21st August 1830) The Legacy of the Roses
The London Literary Gazette, 1830
“What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.”
From Moral Essays: Ad Marciam De Consolatione http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Marcia.html (trans. J. W. Basore)
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Seneca the Younger 225
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist -4–65 BCRelated quotes
Faith is better than feeling.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 244.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 521
“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.
“Never fear to weep;
For tears are summer showers to the soul,
To keep it fresh and green.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 264.