Il est plus difficile de s’empêcher d’être gouverné que de gouverner les autres.
Maxim 151.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Il est plus difficile de s’empêcher d’être gouverné que de gouverner les autres.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
The West Wing Script Book: Volume 1, Introduction.
“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
Source: Passion and Purity
“It is less important to escape pain than to avoid exceptionless rules.”
#326
Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
Source: Century Rain (2004), Chapter 2 (p. 19)
Du mode d'existence des object technique (1958)
In a report, 1792 which Goya was invited to write to the Academy of San Fernando on the subject of teaching art; as cited by Robert Hughes, in: Goya. Borzoi Book - Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003, p. 126
at the end of 1792 Goya abruptly broke off work on his tapestry designs and left Madrid for the South. In Jan. 1793 he wrote a note: 'had been ill for two months and asked permission to stop designing and go to Sevilla to recuperate'. There are no more letters written by Goya then; no one can say more about this crisis / illness, according to Robert Hughes
1790s
“Breaking rules isn't bad when what you're doing is more important than the rule itself”
Source: Once Dead, Twice Shy
