Never be certain of anything. It's a sign of weakness.


In thinges touching conscience, euery true and good subiect is more bounde to haue respect to his saide conscience and to his soule than to any other thing in all the world beside


Letting it get to you, you know what that's called? Being alive. Best thing there is.

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пятница, 12 декабря 2025
16:53

предновогоднее))

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когда друзья знают что дарить)))


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четверг, 11 декабря 2025
12:06

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'You say that Caesar Borgia suffered the just punishment of his crimes. He was destroyed, not by his misdeeds, but by circumstances over which he had no control. His wickedness was an irrelevant accident. In this world of sin and sorrow if virtue triumphs over vice it is not because it is virtuous, but because it has better and bigger guns; if honesty prevails over double-dealing, it is not because it is honest, but because it has a stronger army more ably led; and if good overcomes evil it is not because it is good, but because it has a well-lined purse. It is well to have right on our side, but it is madness to forget that unless we have might as well it will avail us nothing. We must believe that God loves men of good will, but there is no evidence to show that He will save fools from the result of their folly.'

(Somerset Maugham, Then and Now)

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воскресенье, 07 декабря 2025
02:18

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Men will always forgive the loss of their political liberty if their private liberty is left undisturbed

(Somerset Maugham, Then and Now)

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суббота, 06 декабря 2025
12:26

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To err is human; to persist in error is diabolical. (St. Augustine)

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среда, 03 декабря 2025
03:51

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Perhaps all that was happening was that people were trying to say what was happening to them, and the disintegration was not in things but in their knowledge of things. He struggled with the idea of a world of blind impact and unlaw, the only order a tenuous expectation of consistency from one moment to the next.

(Cecelia Holland, City of God)


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суббота, 25 октября 2025
12:38

Узнала

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два новых слова)

mondegreen и diss track))

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пятница, 17 октября 2025
12:07

Четаю

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биографию Чезаре Борджиа, написанную Рафаэлем Сабатини (да, оказывается он не только в фикшн и капитана Блада))) где-то году в 1910.
Вот эту мысль он выдаёт прям в предисловии и периодически к ней возвращается:

To judge it [Cinquecento] from the standpoint of this calm, deliberate, and correct century—as we conceive our own to be—is for sedate middle-age to judge from its own standpoint the reckless, hot, passionate, lustful humours of youth, of youth that errs grievously and achieves greatly.

What astounding complacency. Хорошо хоть про конец истории не сказал)) Видимо, это такой turn-of-the-century congnitive bias, мы всего достигли и с высоты нашей цивилизации взираем :alles:



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пятница, 29 августа 2025
11:57

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Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our hopes and plans, or could see the manner in which we are doomed to die – how ruined our lives would be! Instead we live on dumbly from day to day as happily as animals. But all things must come to dust eventually. No human being, no system, no age is impervious to this law; everything beneath the stars will perish; the hardest rock will be worn away. Nothing endures but words.

(Robert Harris, Lustrum)

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четверг, 21 августа 2025
01:25

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Nothing is shakier than the moral high ground.

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понедельник, 21 июля 2025
21:10

Seneca-7 (Двенадцатый доктор и Шекспир) - Update

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и Двенадцатый Доктор) Возможно, мне мерещится, но прям сильно мерещится) И не только по смыслу, но и стилистически))

Сначала Доктор (эпизод Hell Bent)

As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow. Never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run, it will walk. You will rest, it will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long, you will sit too still or sleep too deep. And when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over.

Сенека, диалог "О краткости жизни":

your life will run its course when once it has begun, and will neither begin again or efface what it has done. It will make no disturbance, it will give you no warning of how fast it flies: it will move silently on: it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the wish of a nation: as it started on its first day, so it will run: it will never turn aside, never delay. What follows, then? Why! you are busy, but life is hurrying on: death will be here some time or other, and you must attend to him, whether you will or no.

UPD: Шекспир, "Ричард II":

KING RICHARD.
Why, uncle, thou hast many years to live.

GAUNT.
But not a minute, king, that thou canst give.
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow.
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;
Thy word is current with him for my death,
But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.





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пятница, 11 июля 2025
16:56

хорошо быть студентом

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вместо преподавателя))) Новая учительница требует писать письменными буквами (старую и печатные устраивали, бубубу). В рассказе асибе мстительно написала очень аккуратными загогулинками свою длинную западноукраинскую фамилию и кличку собаченьки. С фамилией Марина-джан справилась, а на Басе сломалась :alles: (прикол в том что чем более аккуратно пишешь, тем менее различимы отдельные буквы)))

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суббота, 21 июня 2025
14:19 

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понедельник, 16 июня 2025
20:44

Seneca-12

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...matters do not stand so well with mankind that the majority should prefer the better course: the more people do a thing the worse it is likely to be.

Lucius Annaeus, old buddy, they still do not stand so well, believe it or not :alles:

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среда, 11 июня 2025
18:00

Сенека-11

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И просто красивое)

We can serve the greater commonwealth even when we are at leisure; indeed I am not sure that we cannot serve it better when we are at leisure to inquire into what virtue is, and whether it be one or many: whether it be nature or art that makes men good: whether that which contains the earth and sea and all that in them is be one, or whether God has placed therein many bodies of the same species: whether that out of which all things are made be continuous and solid, or containing interstices and alternate empty and full spaces: whether God idly looks on at His handiwork, or directs its course: whether He is without and around the world, or whether He pervades its entire surface: whether the world be immortal, or doomed to decay and belonging to the class of things which are born only for a time? What service does he who meditates upon these questions render to God? He prevents these His great works having no one to witness them.

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суббота, 07 июня 2025
20:55

Seneca-10

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and Robert Frost, with a cynical twist XD

Nor do we take any heed of whether our road be good or bad in itself, but we value it by the number of footprints upon it, among which there are none of any who have returned.

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пятница, 06 июня 2025
16:58

Сенека-9

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и мой терапевт, бгг

they retain their wish for labour longer than their capacity for it, and fight against their bodily weakness; they think old age an evil for no other reason than because it lays them on the shelf. The law does not enroll a soldier after his fiftieth year, or require a senator’s attendance after his sixtieth: but men have more difficulty in obtaining their own consent than that of the law to a life of leisure.

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Сенека-8

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и Томас Мор, некоторым образом (что-то мне подсказывает что он его читал... вот кстати интересно, да, читал или нет)

The position of all busy men is unhappy, but most unhappy of all is that of those who do not even labour at their own affairs, but have to regulate their rest by another man’s sleep, their walk by another man’s pace, and whose very love and hate, the freest things in the world, are at another’s bidding. If such men wish to know how short their lives are, let them think how small a fraction of them is their own.

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понедельник, 02 июня 2025
22:08

однако за время пути собачка могла подрасти

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суббота, 31 мая 2025
21:52

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the notion of work-life balance we torture ourselves [with] -- no life is going to be able to achieve balance, everything worth doing will unbalance your life.
(c) Alain de Botton

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среда, 28 мая 2025
12:34

British humor XD

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Have just discovered the collective noun for bankers: wunch.
A wunch of bankers.

(а кто оч внезапно читает детектив Вэл МакДермид тот я))

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