Tous ces crimes d'État qu'on fait pour la couronne,
Le ciel nous en absout alors qu'il nous la donne.
Livie, act V, scene ii.
Cinna (1641)
Tous ces crimes d'État qu'on fait pour la couronne, Le ciel nous en absout alors qu'il nous la donne.
Cinna (1641)
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 308.
Speech, after he took power, in 1964. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4283169
“The path to heaven lies through heaven, and all the way to heaven is heaven.”
Attributed by Dorothy Day in On Pilgrimage (1948) p. 161
Variants:
All the way to Heaven is Heaven, because Christ is the Way.
As attributed in The Last Things : Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven (1998) by Regis Martin, p. 39
All the way to heaven is heaven, for Jesus said, I am the way.
As attributed in The Fear of Beggars : Stewardship and Poverty in Christian Ethics (2007) by Kelly S. Johnson, p. 209
"Creation"
By Still Waters (1906)
Context: Sacred thy laughter on the air,
Holy thy lightest word that fell,
Proud the innumerable hair
That waved at the enchanter's spell.
Oh Master of the Beautiful,
Creating us from hour to hour,
Give me this vision to the full
To see in lightest things thy power!
This vision give, no heaven afar,
No throne, and yet I will rejoice,
Knowing beneath my feet a star,
Thy word in every wandering voice.
“Discover the force of the heavens O Men:
Once recognised it can be put to use:
No use could be seen in unknown things.”
Vim coeli reserate viri: venit agnita ad usus:
Ignotae videas commoda nulla rei.
De fundamentis astrologiae certioribus [On the more Certain Fundamentals of Astrology or On Giving Astrology Sounder Foundations] (written 1601; published 1602) in Opera Omnia, Vol. 1, Heyder & Zimmer, 1858, p. 417 (title-page)
Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Don Alvarez in Act I, Sc. 1; also misquoted as "Reason gains all people by compelling none."
Alzira: A Tragedy (1736)
A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise
