Antoninus

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Antoninus.


The German Ideolo...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Hitler: Ascent 18...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 38 of 1008)
Feb 11, 2024 12:32PM

 
Drink: A Cultural...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 160 of 560)
Sep 28, 2023 04:21AM

 
See all 7 books that Antoninus is reading…
Loading...
George Orwell
“(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.
(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.
(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

François de La Rochefoucauld
“276.—Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.”
François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Witold Gombrowicz
“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of you when you look at a painting. You think that you are getting close to art voluntarily, enticed by its beauty, that this intimacy is taking place in an atmosphere of freedom and that delight is being born in you spontaneously, lured by the divine rod of Beauty. In truth, a hand has grabbed you by the scruff of the neck, led you to this painting and has thrown you to your knees. A will mightier than your own told you to attempt to experience the appropriate emotions. Whose hand and whose will? That hand is not the hand of a single man, the will is collective, born in an interhuman dimension, quite alien to you. So you do not admire at all, you merely try to admire.”
Witold Gombrowicz , Diary
tags: art

“If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.”
W. I. Thomas

Euripides
“I think that Fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his gods strive for him equally.”
Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris

220 Goodreads Librarians Group — 329312 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
148604 Wholesome History Reads Group — 485 members — last activity May 23, 2026 02:38PM
Welcome to the Wholesome History Reads Group! This group is dedicated to finding awesome history books that are entertaining, exciting, and above ...more
25x33 Roman Empire Books — 8 members — last activity Jan 30, 2021 12:16PM
I am shocked nobody has made a group such as this. The best Genre in reading Roman history. All Roman history is accepted here. My favorites: The eagl ...more
203774 Stoicism — 135 members — last activity Nov 03, 2019 07:16AM
A book club on ancient and modern texts discussing the Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism and its contemporary applications in daily life.
year in books
annie
1,096 books | 118 friends

Donald ...
252 books | 67 friends


Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Worst Books of All Time
8,112 books — 19,897 voters




Polls voted on by Antoninus

Lists liked by Antoninus