Book XLII, line 202
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
“It doth repent me; words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
Prometheus, Act I, l. 304
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
From the German (In Hyperion).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head!”
Source: "Unseasonable Snows", line 13; p. 38, Lyrical Poems (1891)
The Mask and Mirror (1994), The Dark Night of The Soul
“Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.”
Nulla res citius in odium venit quam dolor, qui recens consolatorem invenit et aliquos ad se adducit, inveteratus vero deridetur, nec inmerito.
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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
at KAPU, Konferenz der Begrenzten, Linz 2016
Book VIII, 8.89
As quoted in A Historical Commentary on Thucydides: A Companion to Rex Warner’s Penguin Translation, David Cartwright/Rex Warner, University of Michigan Press (1997), p. 298 : ISBN 0472084194
In the Richard Crawley translation, this quote is rendered as follows : [U]nder a democracy a disappointed candidate accepts his defeat more easily, because he has not the humiliation of being beaten by his equals.
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VIII
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 30.
