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Saturday 17 July 2010
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 18:21 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
“There is an appointed time for everything and a time for every affair under the heavens…
A time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to be silent, and a time to speak....”
Ecclesiastes 3
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 18:14 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Ton affaire, c’est de jouer correctement le personnage qui t’a été confié; quant à le choisir, c’est
l’affaire d’un autre.
(It’s your business to properly play out the character that you were assigned; as for choosing it, that’s the business of another.)
Epictetus
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 18:05 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Aliquando et insanire jucundum est.
(It is sometimes good to be a little crazy.)
Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi ad Serenum
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 17:58 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Que chacun fasse donc le métier qu’il sait faire!
(That every man perform the job that he knows how to do!)
Aristophanes, The Wasps
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 17:50 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Et quel temps fut jamais si fertile en miracles.
(And what time was ever so fertile with miracles.)
Racine, Athalie
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 17:45 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Il faut être plus grands, malgré nous.
(We must be greater, despite ourselves.)
Napoléon
By Pierre Suard on Saturday 17 July 2010, 17:29 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Pousser en commun, mais non penser en commun.
(Push forward communally but don’t think communally.)
Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts
Friday 16 July 2010
By Pierre Suard on Friday 16 July 2010, 20:24 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Cras ingens iterabimus aequo.
(Tomorrow we take our course once more over the mighty seas.)
Horace, Odes
By Pierre Suard on Friday 16 July 2010, 19:44 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Et je dis à mes yeux qui lui trouvaient des charmes :
Ailleurs tous vos regards, ailleurs toutes vos larmes,
Aimez ce que jamais on ne verra deux fois.
(And I said to my eyes which noted her charm:
Always focus your eyes elsewhere, always focus your tears elsewhere,
Love what one will never see a second time.)
Alfred de Vigny, La Maison du berger
By Pierre Suard on Friday 16 July 2010, 18:55 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
…et tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.
(...and a silent wound lives under her chest.)
Virgil, The Aeneid
By Pierre Suard on Friday 16 July 2010, 17:23 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
La rançon des grandes actions, c’est la bassesse quand elle prend sa revanche.
(The price of great acts, it’s baseness when it takes its revenge.)
Charles de Gaulle
By Pierre Suard on Friday 16 July 2010, 15:10 - Shot Down in mid-Flight
Quel plus terrible fléau que l'injustice qui a les armes à la main.
(What more terrible curse than injustice with arms in hand.)
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Thursday 3 June 2010
By Pierre Suard on Thursday 3 June 2010, 18:52 - En toute Impunité
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