Once, twice and three times true!—People lie unspeakably often, but afterwards they do not remember it and on the whole do not believe it.
Einmal, zweimal und dreimal wahr!—Die Menschen lügen unsäglich oft, aber sie denken hinterher nicht daran und glauben im Ganzen nicht daran.
"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).
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Friday, August 30, 2024
Habitual Mendacity
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), Daybreak (Morgenröthe, tr. Walter Kaufmann), Book IV, § 302: