“Those thoughts that come to us suddenly and that are not yet ours.”
“[Old age] never comes alone.”
Monosticha http://www.gottwein.de/Grie/menand/monost_a.php (491).
“Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.”
Book i. Stanza 25.
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius (1771)
Étude pour un buste de M. Erik SATIE peint par lui-même, avec une pensée: je suis venu au monde très jeune dans un temps très vieux.
Written to accompany a self-portrait caricature drawn by himself - see image
General quotes
“Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.”
Theogony, lines 607–609
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
“Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.”
Ut varias usus meditando extunderet artis
paulatim.
Book I, lines 133–134
Georgics (29 BC)
Source: The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795–1822), Ch. III.
