"And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]"

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Horace

#Endeavour Quotes #Circumstances Quotes

“Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.”
“The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.”
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.”
“True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.”
“People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.”
“Thatâ€™s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. Itâ€™s practically what theyâ€™re for.”
“When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.”

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