From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”
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Quote of the day 10/12/23
From Lucretius: “For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.”
Quote of the day 10/11/23
From Lucretius: “All things keep on in everlasting motion,Out of the infinite come the particles,Speeding above, below, in endless dance.”
Quote of the day 10/10/23
From Lucretius: “The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Quote of the day 08/22/23
From Lucretius: “Trees don’t live in the sky, and clouds don’t swim In the salt seas, and fish don’t leap in wheatfields, Blood isn’t found in wood, nor sap in rocks. By fixed arrangement, all that live and grows Submits to limit and restrictions.”
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