Quotes
List here any quote, from Quo Vadis, that inspires you, or is something that gives you s strong visual image, or maybe you just admire the author's use of words ... poetic, lyrical, straightforward, cultural, etc...
“The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.” ~ Henryk Seinkiewicz QUO VADIS by Henryk Sienkiewicz Part 1 QUO VADIS by Henryk Sienkiewicz Part 2
The world stands on deceit, and life is an illusion. The soul is an illusion too.
ReplyDeleteA weaver must have taught thee gymnastics, and a blacksmith thy manners.
ReplyDeleteShe felt a cetain delight even in the thought that she was sacrificing plently and comfort for her Truth, and was entering on an unknown and wandering existence. Perhaos there was in this a little also of childish curiousity as to what that life would be, off somewhere in remote regions, among wild beasts and barbarians.
ReplyDelete"Its not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman, and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball."
ReplyDeleteAnd remember always that marble, though most precious, is nothing of itself, and acquires the real value only when the sculptor's hand turns it into a masterpiece. Be thou such a sculptor, carissime! To love is not sufficient; one must know how to love; one must know how to teach love. Though the plebs, too, and even animals experience pleasure, a genuine man differs from them in this especially, that he makes love in some way a noble art, and, admiring it, knows all its divine value, makes it present in his mind, thus satifying not his body merely, but his soul. More than once, when I think here of the emptiness, the uncertainity, the dreariness of life, it occurs to me that perhaps thou hast chosen better, and that not Caesar's court, but war and love, are the only objects for which it is worthwhile to be born and to live.
ReplyDeleteHope looks for something every morning, otherwise life would be impossible.
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