Cicero, Pro Roscio Comodeo Oratio, 17; C.D. Yonge translation
Nonne, ut ignis in aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur?
The Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys, p. 204
"Postscript", p. 153.
The Anarchist Cookbook (1971)
“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”
Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort sous la cendre.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”
Source: In the Forest
“And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?”
Cassandra (1860)
Context: At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this? We go somewhere where we are not wanted and where we don't want to go. What else is conventional life? Passivity when we want to be active. So many hours spent every day in passively doing what conventional life tells us, when we would so gladly be at work.
And is it a wonder that all individual life is extinguished?
“It is hard to hate what one has loved,
And a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”
On a peine à haïr ce qu'on a bien aimé,
Et le feu mal éteint est bientôt rallumé.
Sertorius, act I, scene iii.
Sertorius (1662)
