La bellezza per lei, come per tutti quelli che hanno molto sentito, non risiedeva nelle cose ma in ciò che esse simboleggiavano
La bellezza per lei, come per tutti quelli che hanno molto sentito, non risiedeva nelle cose ma in ciò che esse simboleggiavano
It is not goodness to be better than the worst. Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem.
He (Cato) prefered to be good rather than seem good. Esse quam videri bonus malebat.
Ended every speech in the Roman senate with the words For the rest, I wrote that Carthage should be destroyed. Ceterum senseo Carthaginem esse delendam.
A liar must have a good memory. Mendacem oportet esse memorem.
He seems to me to be equal to a god. Ille mi par esse deo videtur.
The biologist can push it back to the original protist, and the chemist can push it back to the crystal, but none of them touch the real question of why or how the thing began at all. The astronomer goes back untold million of years and ends in gas and emptiness, and then the mathematician sweeps the whole cosmos into unreality and leaves one with mind as the only thing of which we have any immediate apprehension. Cogito ergo sum, ergo omnia esse videntur. All this bother, and we are no further than Descartes. Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone. Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone. Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset.
I don't want to be Caesar. Ego nolo Caesar esse.
We are slaves of the law so that we may be able to be free. Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus.
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