
“To repair the irreparable ravages of time.”
Pour réparer des ans l'irréparable outrage.
Athalie, act II, scene V (1691).
Athalie (1691)
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“To repair the irreparable ravages of time.”
Pour réparer des ans l'irréparable outrage.
Athalie, act II, scene V (1691).
Athalie (1691)
Source: [Asiri 1950, No. 334] Asiri 1950 — Asiri, Fazl Mahmud. Rubaiyat-i-Sarmad. Shantiniketan, 1950. Quoted from SARMAD: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SUFI https://iphras.ru/uplfile/smirnov/ishraq/3/24_prig.pdf by N. Prigarina
“But in times of tumult haste is even slow.”
Sed in tumultu festinatio quoque tarda est
IX, 9, 12
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IX
Attributed to Metrodorus by Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, V, 14, as translated by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Clement of Alexandria, vol. II, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, vol. XII, 1869, p. 300 https://archive.org/details/antenicenechris05donagoog/page/n314.
“Count not that thou hast lived that day, in which thou hast not lived with God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 117.
“Since Thou hast regarded me,
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me.”
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom
Context: Despise me not,
For if I was swarthy once
Thou canst regard me now;
Since Thou hast regarded me,
Grace and beauty hast Thou given me. ~ 33