"It is a bitter dose to be taught obedience after you have learned to rule."

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Publilius Syrus

#Taught Quotes #Bitter Quotes #Obedience Quotes

“The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.”
“Well, with all the experiences I have had, I would say the most disappointing ones are the ones when I have not taken enough.”

Source : Interview with Elizabeth Gips, www.tripzine.com. May 1, 2001.
“â€ŽLife is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
“It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”
“TM in the a.m. and the p.m....20 minutes in the bank, all day in the market place.”
“When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps.”
“prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.”
“the first requirement of war: allies must not kill each other.”

Source : Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.408, Penguin

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