“It doth repent me; words are quick and vain;
Grief for awhile is blind, and so was mine.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
Prometheus, Act I, l. 304
Prometheus Unbound (1818–1819; publ. 1820)
“These friendly words awhile consoled the fair;
For grief imparted oft alleviates care.”
Book XLII, line 202
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)
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From the German (In Hyperion).
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“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
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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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Line 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=pa1EAQAAIAAJ&q=%22citius+in+odium+venit+quam+dolor+qui+recens+con-solatorem+invenit+et+aliquos+ad+se+adducit+inveteratus+vero+deridetur+nec+inmerito%22&pg=PA436#v=onepage. <br class="br">Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII
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at KAPU, Konferenz der Begrenzten, Linz 2016
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
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
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 30.