"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for
what has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."
-- Pliny the Younger
what has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."
-- Pliny the Younger
Related:
- His only fault is that he has no fault.
-- Pliny the Younger (61-105 AD)
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Letters, Book ix, Letter xxvi,... - We are always acting on what has just finished happening.
It happened at least one-thirtieth of a second ago... - Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker are haunted by fear,
and it has not limits... - This is an unprecedented incident but we do know it
has happened before... - We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the
originality of a thought,
whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten... - The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history... - while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery,
we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained... - We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are
everything.
Blaise...
