Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Recommended quotes page 40
“What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.”
Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River
Source: Like the Flowing River
“Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.”
Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“If you are brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new Hello.
Paulo Coehlo”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Variant: If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
“Nobody is worth your tears, and the one who is won't make you cry”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“O, the times! O, the morals!”
O tempora! O mores!
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Speech I
In Catilinam I – Against Catiline (63 B.C)
Variant: O the times! O, the customs!
“More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
To Varro, in Ad Familiares IX, 4
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Attributed to Cicero in J. M. Braude's Speaker's Desk Book of Quips, Quotes, & Anecdotes (Jaico Pub. House, 1966), p. 52. <br class="br">Dennis McHenry in a 2011 post at theCAMPVS.com http://thecampvs.com/2011/08/03/cicero-on-books-and-the-soul/ identified a source for the exact form of words in the essay "On the Pleasure of Reading" http://books.google.com/books?id=0YfQAAAAMAAJ&dq=cicero%20%22room%20without%20books%22%20%2B%22contemporary%20review%22&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false by Sir John Lubbock, published in The Contemporary Review, vol. 49 (1886) https://archive.org/details/contemporaryrev55unkngoog, pp. 240–51 https://archive.org/stream/contemporaryrev55unkngoog#page/n250/mode/2up, in which Lubbock wrote that "Cicero described a room without books as a body without a soul" (p. 241). The same sentence may also be found on p. 61 https://archive.org/stream/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft#page/60/mode/2up of Lubbock's collection The Pleasures of Life. Part I. 18th edition (London and New York : Macmillan and Co. 1890) https://archive.org/details/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft, in a lecture titled "A Song of Books". McHenry suggested that Lubbock may have had in mind the words "postea vero quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit mens addita videtur meis aedibus" at Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.8, which are translated by E. O. Winstedt on p. 293 https://archive.org/stream/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft#page/292/mode/2up of Cicero: Letters to Atticus I (London : William Heinemann, and New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912) https://archive.org/details/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft "Since Tyrannio has arranged my books, the house seems to have acquired a soul", and by Evelyn Shuckburgh on p. 234 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012541433#page/n283/mode/2up of The Letters of Cicero. Vol. I. B. C. 68–52 (London : George Bell and Sons 1908) https://archive.org/details/cu31924012541433 "Moreover, since Tyrannio has arranged my books for me, my house seems to have had a soul added to it" (although the Latin word " mens http://athirdway.com/glossa/?s=mens", rendered "soul" by both Winstedt and Shuckburgh, is more usually translated by the English "mind"). D. R. Shackleton Bailey in Cicero's Letters to Atticus (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1978), p. 162, translated "And now that Tyrannio has put my books straight, my house seems to have woken to life". <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variant: Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima" A room without books is like a body without a soul
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? ([http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/cicero/orator.shtml#120 120])
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Variant translation: To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.
Chapter XXXIV, section 120
Orator Ad M. Brutum (46 BC)
Variant: Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“The young man should be praised, honored, and made immortal.”
Laudandum adulescentem, ornandum, tollendum.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Ad Familiares 11.20.1; the reference is to Octavian, with tollendum carrying the implication of the youth's being slain and thus "made immortal".
“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”
Memorandum to President Roosevelt (July, 1944).
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jungk (Page 351).