“We should provide in peace what we need in war.”
Maxim 709
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter 10
“We should provide in peace what we need in war.”
Maxim 709
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
“There is a saying that we provide the machines with an end, and they provide us with the means.”
“Descendant” (p. 40)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
“We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.”
Il faut aimer n'importe qui, n'importe quoi, n'importe comment, pourvu qu'on aime.
Les Idées de Madame Aubray (1867), Act I, sc. ii; translation from Louis Proal (trans. A. R. Allinson) Passion and Criminality (London: Imperial Press, 1905) p. 563.
[Charles Vernon Boys, Soap-bubbles and the forces which mould them: Being a course of three lectures delivered in the theatre of the London institution on the afternoons of Dec. 30, 1889, Jan. 1 and 3, 1890, before a juvenile audience, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1896, 11]