
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
As quoted in Lin Yutang's The Vermilion Gate (1914)
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Give Pleasure
Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetet Incohare Longam (1896). This title too is from Horace: "The short span of life forbids us to entertain long hopes."
"Swift Opportunity", p. 281.
Poetry of the Orient, 1893 edition
“3895. Poor men seek meat for their Stomach; rich Men Stomach for their Meat.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Laughter for the soul, and wine for the body.”
Le rire pour l'âme et le vin pour le corps.
Le Moyen de Parvenir (1617).
Unsourced
“Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.”
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1, Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972)
Context: The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao;
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
“Four-point-two kilometres is a long way for a frozen body to sink.”
p 1, describing his North Pole swim (2007)
Achieving The Impossible (2010)