Quotes about la
latin dies
I shall not completely die. Horace
latin
No, but you're wrong now, and always will be.
latin blind obedience
No master can make me swear blind obedience.
latin night
The same night awaits us all.
latin glory deserve
The glory is for those who deserve.
latin people house
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
latin want dies
I want to live, and die with you.
latin victory insulting
Victory is by nature superb and insulting.
latin years wrinkles
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.
latin joy compare
While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.
latin voice together
When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.
latin forests
Don't carry logs into the forest.
latin wish belts
He who has lost his money-belt will go where you wish.
latin
I was what you are, you will be what I am.
latin middle middle-ground
There is a middle ground in things.
latin bronze lasting
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze.
latin savages conqueror
Captive Greece took captive her savage conqueror.
laughter stolen provoking
The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.
labor
It is good to labor; it is also good to rest from labor.
laughing comedian easy
It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs. Hank Azaria
laughing guy lists
Guys will definitely settle for women who get the joke. But a woman who can make you laugh? It's not high on a guy's must list. Perhaps it should be.
lasting-happiness boredom balance
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive. Hannah Arendt
law keys excellence
Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
laughter enemy way
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
language invention mankind
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. Guy Deutscher
language familiar
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. Guy deBord
law doe youth
Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed. Guy de Maupassant
law agreement soul
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body. The soul follows its own laws, and the body likewise follows its own laws; and they agree with each other in virtue of the pre-established harmony between all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe. Gottfried Leibniz
land populist presses
Populists have never had a good press in Freedom's land. Gore Vidal
law government drug
If [drugs] didn't exist, our government would have to invent them, the better to enact laws aimed at keeping the citizens "sinless and obedient."
laughter men squares
In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.
law might physics
American laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work.
latin mean men
Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.