"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
Pages
▼
Thursday, July 29, 2004
What Passes Away and What Remains
Musonius, fragment 51 Hense, quoted by Aulus Gellius 16.1.2:
If you do something good with suffering, the suffering passes away, but the good remains. If you do something shameful with pleasure, the sweetness passes away, but the shame remains.