“All times seem special to those who live in them.”
Source: The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994), Chapter 19, A Partner in the Process (p. 276)
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“Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.”
Apprenez que tout flatteur
Vit aux dépens de celui qui l'écoute.
Book I (1668), fable 2. Variant translations: Learn now that every flatterer lives at the cost of those who give him credit.
In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future — Do not trust flatterers.
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
Fables (1668–1679)
1:28:29 English http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/12021.htm Latin http://www.augustinus.it/latino/dottrina_cristiana/index2.htm
Latin: Sed cum omnibus prodesse non possis, his potissimum consulendum est, qui pro locorum et temporum vel quarumlibet rerum opportunitatibus constrictius tibi quasi quadam sorte iunguntur.
De doctrina christiana
Context: Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
“Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.”
Veralidaine "Daine" Sarrasri
Variant: He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Source: Mein Kampf
“What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?”
Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage