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“The unity of man and nature is the fundamental principle of a sound society.”
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“What! the passions of a Nero, of a Tiberius, could be useful? - Without doubt, very useful in corporate industry. Let us explain this mystery.
Nero is a being born with bloodthirsty inclinations. Nature wants him to take sides in some of the butchery groups of his phalanx from the age of three. If he had a horror of bloodshed, he could not passionately exercise a job in the butcheries, get used to it for pleasure from an early age, and become at twenty a very skilled butcher, as nature wants.
But I hear Agrippina reply: What a ridiculous vision! to pretend that my son, heir to the throne of the world, is made for the profession of butcher! - On this, Agrippina has her son indoctrinated by Seneca and other scholars who will teach him that nature is vicious, that bloodthirsty inclinations are odious, that a young prince should love only commerce and the Charter, and that he would debase himself by sneaking around with butchers.
Here, then, is one passion of young Nero hindered, and twenty other of his tastes will be similarly thwarted by the healthy doctrines of gentle and pure morality. Such will be the opinion of Seneca; but Horace and La Fontaine are of a very different opinion, and judge much more soundly when they say:
If you chase her out the door,
she comes back through the window.”
―
Nero is a being born with bloodthirsty inclinations. Nature wants him to take sides in some of the butchery groups of his phalanx from the age of three. If he had a horror of bloodshed, he could not passionately exercise a job in the butcheries, get used to it for pleasure from an early age, and become at twenty a very skilled butcher, as nature wants.
But I hear Agrippina reply: What a ridiculous vision! to pretend that my son, heir to the throne of the world, is made for the profession of butcher! - On this, Agrippina has her son indoctrinated by Seneca and other scholars who will teach him that nature is vicious, that bloodthirsty inclinations are odious, that a young prince should love only commerce and the Charter, and that he would debase himself by sneaking around with butchers.
Here, then, is one passion of young Nero hindered, and twenty other of his tastes will be similarly thwarted by the healthy doctrines of gentle and pure morality. Such will be the opinion of Seneca; but Horace and La Fontaine are of a very different opinion, and judge much more soundly when they say:
If you chase her out the door,
she comes back through the window.”
―
“While from his fingers' ends the dews of sound
Dript, changing into Jewels as they fell,
Bright as stalactites of crystal hung
In the Enchanted Caverns of the Nymphs.
The lucid, liquid, silvery touch of his
Soft fingers drew from out the strings such notes
As only follow from an Angel's hand -
Whose music seemed to run down from his soul
And crystallize itself thereon in sparkling tones
Of multicolored Jewels pure as love,
And perfect as those twelve Foundation-stones
Set in the Temple of the Living God.”
―
Dript, changing into Jewels as they fell,
Bright as stalactites of crystal hung
In the Enchanted Caverns of the Nymphs.
The lucid, liquid, silvery touch of his
Soft fingers drew from out the strings such notes
As only follow from an Angel's hand -
Whose music seemed to run down from his soul
And crystallize itself thereon in sparkling tones
Of multicolored Jewels pure as love,
And perfect as those twelve Foundation-stones
Set in the Temple of the Living God.”
―
“Civilization is built upon the unhappiness of others.”
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“To Time. (1615)
Thou Register of old Antiquities,
Observer of the worlds iniquities,
Surveying life from birth till Death intoombe,
From Adam's making, to the day of doom:
That in thy restless cunning dost admit
Of actions lawful, or of things unfit,
And hast thy head behind of purpose ball'd,
Because thou never wilt be back recall'd;
But wear'st a lock before I understand,
On which I never yet could lay my hand.
I have expected (thou grave ancient father)
Thy helping hand, and I protest the rather,
Because they say that Time by turns doth go,
And hitherto I have not found it so:
Therefore for some good turn, one of these days,
I challenge thee, or I'll disprove thy praise,
And I write of thee according as I find,
That thorow age thou art both ball'd and blind;
Find out a time, good Time, for to relieve me,
For at this time, Time very bad doth grieve mee.”
― The Melancholie Knight
Thou Register of old Antiquities,
Observer of the worlds iniquities,
Surveying life from birth till Death intoombe,
From Adam's making, to the day of doom:
That in thy restless cunning dost admit
Of actions lawful, or of things unfit,
And hast thy head behind of purpose ball'd,
Because thou never wilt be back recall'd;
But wear'st a lock before I understand,
On which I never yet could lay my hand.
I have expected (thou grave ancient father)
Thy helping hand, and I protest the rather,
Because they say that Time by turns doth go,
And hitherto I have not found it so:
Therefore for some good turn, one of these days,
I challenge thee, or I'll disprove thy praise,
And I write of thee according as I find,
That thorow age thou art both ball'd and blind;
Find out a time, good Time, for to relieve me,
For at this time, Time very bad doth grieve mee.”
― The Melancholie Knight
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