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Mythographer Inspirational Quotes (1245)

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Fair peace becomes men ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]
Ovid
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
Roland Barthes
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Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.
Ovid
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Chaste is she whom no one has asked.
Ovid
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As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
Ovid
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Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life.
James G. Frazer
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Take this at least, this last advice, my son: Keep a stiff rein, and move but gently on: The coursers of themselves will run too fast, Your art must be to moderate their haste.
Ovid
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With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy.
Ovid
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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
Ovid
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
Ovid
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From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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The most awkward means are adequate to the communication of authentic experience, and the finest words no compensation for lack of it. It is for this reason that we are moved by the true Primitives and that the most accomplished art craftsmanship leaves us cold.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.
Ananda Coomaraswamy
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
Edith Hamilton
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We do not bear sweets we are recruited by a bitter potion.
Ovid
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There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.
Ovid
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The petit-bourgeois is a man unable to imagine the Other. If he comes face to face with him, he blinds himself, ignores and denies him, or else transforms him into himself.
Roland Barthes
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Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.
Ovid
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When you have set yourself a task finish it.
Ovid
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A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]
Ovid
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There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.
Ovid
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