"Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame."

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Source : 1557 'Whoso List to Hunt'. The subject of the poem is thought to Be Anne Boleyn. See Bible 118:23.

Thomas Wyatt

#Noli Me Tangere Quotes #Seems Quotes

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
“I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.”
“The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.”
“In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.”
“For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.”
“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.”
“Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or less alarming to persons unaccustomed to the operations of industry; whereas, on the contrary, landed property produces without any change of either quality or position.”

Source : Jean Baptiste Say (1854). “A treatise on political economy, or, the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth”, p.363
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.”

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