Hope is a waking dream.
(Aristotle – from Diogenes Laertius’ Lives.)
Κατηγορία: Excerpt
Hazlitt, «To great evils we submit…»
To great evils we submit;
we resent little provocations.
(Hazlitt: On Great and Little Things.)
Heraclitus, «It would not be better…»
It would not be better
if things happened to men
just as they wish.
(Heraclitus.)
Franz Kafka, «Don’t despair…»
Don’t despair,
not even over the fact
that you don’t despair.
(Franz Kafka: Diary.)
Publilius Syrus, «Life is short…»
Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.
(Publilius Syrus: Sententiae.)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, «Life is a great bundle…»
Life is a great bundle of little things.
(O. W. Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast Table.)
Samuel Butler, «A hen…»
A hen is only an egg’s way
of making another egg.
(Samuel Butler (II): Life and habit.)
Emerson, «All the thoughts of a turtle…»
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
(Emerson.)
Thoreau, «A perfectly healthy sentence…»
A perfectly healthy sentence
is extremely rare.
(Thoreau.)
Joseph Roux, «Maximiste…»
Maximiste, pessimiste.
(Joseph Roux: Meditations of a parish priest.)