"As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states."

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Source : Lucan (1957). “Pharsalia: dramatic episodes of the Civil Wars”

Lucan

#Heaven Quotes #Growth Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”
“You know what circumcision is, Private?”
“Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.”
“Nobody has time to keep trying on a load of things in the morning like a teenager.”
“I played the character knowing that she was knocked down, 100 percent, dead-in-front-of-a-bus in love with her boss. Every scene, I did not care if it was about taxes or about, you know, getting rid of the penny, it was all about me being in love with him.”
“We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.”

Source : "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow, www.eff.org. February 8, 1996.
“In the end, they traded their tired wings for the resignation that living brings. And exchanged love's bright and fragile glow for the glitter and the rouge, and in the moment they were swept before the deluge.”
“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.”

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