
#14550, Part 15
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
"Nothing Besides Itself"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
#14550, Part 15
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 183.
Book I, Canto VI, IV A Riddle Solved.
The Angel In The House (1854)
“Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?”
As Harris K. Telemacher in "L.A. Story" (1991)
“None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.”
Nec satis apparet, cur versus factitet.
Source: Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC), Line 470 (tr. Conington)
“None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.”
Source: Translations, The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace (1869), Art of Poetry, p. 191