Midway along the journey of our life [Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita] I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandere...d off from the straight path.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night....
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up, the star is shot; The flight is past: and man forgot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. A truth ...is something that everybody can be shown to know and to have known, as people say, all along.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product ...of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a "work" of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun agai...n the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into th...e idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is what the Church is said to want, not party men, but sensible, temperate, sober, well-judging persons, to guide it through ...the channel of no-meaning, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what h...e has seen in Hong-Kong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »