‘Adversity introduces a man to himself’.
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Category: Quotable quotes
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Himmler quote
‘Every healthy young German is committing a crime against the Volk if between age twenty-five and thirty-five he does not have four or five children’.
—H. Himmler, Das Schwarze Korps, 1939.
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Latin proverb
Quidquid præcipies esto brevis.
‘Whatever advice you give, be short’.
Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), CCCXXXV.
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Lucretius quote
Suave mare magno
(It is pleasant to watch the wild sea)
— Lucretius, 98-55 b.c.e, Roman poet
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Pau’s quote
‘Cómo es necesaria la humildad para reconocer los propios errores’ (How humility is necessary to recognise one’s mistakes).
—Letter from Paulina, page 443 of Hojas Susurrantes.
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Mantra post
«Raised profoundly as a Catholic, today I am convinced that it is not enough to leave the religion of our parents. Liberation will need us to burn down worldwide all Christian churches to the ground. Such is my inspiration and mentality in the struggle for our survival». —Albus, from Germany
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Finis coronat opus
This means ‘the end crowns the work’, and is used to indicate that a long and important work has been completed.
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Latin locution
Ad augusta per angusta
Roughly ‘through difficulties to greatness’ it means we don’t achieve success except by overcoming a thousand difficulties.
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Virgil quote
Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris
Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora
I sing of arms and of the man, fated to be an exile;
who long since left the land of Troy and came to Italy
to the shores of Lavinium