in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?
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Love that only which happens to thee and is spun with the thread of thy destiny. For what is more suitable?
Use these rules then, and trouble thyself about nothing else.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.
The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, —there, if one must speak out, the real man.
"The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.
All those things at which thou wishest to arrive by a circuitous road, thou canst have now, if thou dost not refuse them to thyself.
What means all this?