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always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,
ALEXAS
Gracious Queen, even Herod of Judea wouldn't dare look at you unless you were in a good mood.
I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me.
The master who loved most of all, endured the most and proved his love by his endurance.
Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.
What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to the immortal. Once again the ways of the artist and healer are merging.
Who that has reason, and his smell,
Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is that compared to the magnificent uselessness of a woman's face? Mersault was aware of this now, delighting in his vanity and smiling at his secret demons.
Plutus himself,
That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
Hath not in nature's mystery more science
Than I have in this ring.
The magna mater!" a ghost wailed in despair. "The big mother!
(whose initials were probably OCTAVIAN).
Annabeth is the most level-headed demigod
MOM - Mistress Of Miracles
Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
The marvelous Maker!
Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was
Athenian men, I respect and love you,
but I shall obey the god rather than you ...
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
Omnia exeunt in mysterium. (All things end in mystery).
Imitations of Horace. Of two evils I have chose the least.
Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.
O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.
Polybius more than 150 years earlier,
The imagination of a master
will never be thought
only be written.
Petra Hermans
October 16, 2016
Does anyone here speak English? Or even Ancient Greek?
- A very lost Marcus Brody
O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.-Helena
amanuensis. A rapt
The picturesque doctor's daughter, Miss Manette.
Midian is where the monsters go.
M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises ...
I spy the eyes before me to be those of the celestial warrior the legends of men call Michael.
Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,Whose truths electrify the sage.
You think I'm a part of the Magicus Mundi?"
"You are telling me you're not? That being the new Lilith means nothing? That it's a human thing?"
"It's the quintessential human thing," Sylvie said. "The ability to say fuck you.
Odysseus and his soldiers to certain destruction. Odysseus
(Who Did No Harm to No Man all the Dais of Her Life. Reader, Can You Say Lykewise?).
Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)
The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face.
... Miss Marjoribanks was of the numerous class of religionists who keep up civilities with heaven, and pay all the proper attentions, and show their respect for the divine government in a manner befitting persons who know the value of their own approbation.
Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)
Pygmalion formed an ivory maid, and longed for an informing soul. She, on the contrary, combined all the qualities of a hero's mind, and fate presented a statue in which she might enshrine them.
In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men.
[Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
She was resting at a table between numbers in the Greek nightclub where she was dancing. A little of the stage light touched her. She was very frail. She seemed to be thinking about something far away, waiting patiently for somebody to destroy her.
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ...
Who was Vardan Mamikonian, and how did he come to play this most crucial role in Armenian history? It may justifiably be said that without his committed leadership, the term "Armenian" today might have referred to no more than an obscure, one-time, Christian people of long past.
You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your ... um, Athenian women.
My mother's name was Miriam, but most people called her Mim.
Men of Athens, I honor and I love you, but I will obey the god rather than you and as long as I draw breath and am able, I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to exhort you and in my usual way to point out to any one of you whom I happen to meet.
THE GREEK INTERPRETER
This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?
The Greeks' sculpture and athletics celebrated the human form, their literature and music human passion, their discourse and philosophy human reason. In
The nine Greek Muses, awakened again for this generation of man and meant to inspire mankind forward in the sciences and the arts.
Brother Maical's wisdom lies in knowing he is not clever and letting himself be led. The foolishness of mankind is that we do not do the same.
Mathilde was there in the dawn, this perfect girl as if made to his specifications. [A different life, had Lotto listened to the terror: no glory, no plays; peace, ease, and money. No glamour; children. Which life was better? Not for us to say.]
Carpe Diam forever after.
Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.
HONORINE BEATRIX
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MAZARIN STONE
Saul of Tarsus on the Damascene road.
In the dining room, my brother - the scholar - was asking my father what it meant, amadan. My father said, "A fool. It means someone's a fool." Even with the water running, the cup of soapy water at my lips, I could hear my father's shout of laughter when my brother asked him, "Who is?
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.
What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)
Gobartes the son of Artabazos
The abject pleasure of an abject mind
And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind.
[Lat., Vindicta
Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]
God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder.
Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy ... Understand that I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.
Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
Try as i do, i can't recall her surname. Indeed, her very abstractedness and insubstantial personality seemed to say 'forget me'; she seemed to live in parenthesis; ...
To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you.
Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,
Left behind as a memory for us.
[Lat., Nobis meminisse relictum.]
ceasing. 1 THESSALONIANS
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.
Ausonius must be read to be believed! As poet, no subject is too trivial for him; as courtier, no flattery too excessive.
my Clodius, how little your countrymen know of the true versatility of a Pericles, of the true witcheries of an Aspasia!
The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
Ariadne in the labyrinth. The most alive of worlds, human beings with the tenderest flesh, are made of marble. I strew devastation as I pass. I wander dead-eyed through cities and petrified populations.
Who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits.
The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
Malavika Vishwanath. Don't try to say it you'll just piss me off.
Gabriel, Michael, Raphael.
ODYSSEUS I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.
Melly is the only woman friend I ever had," she thought forlornly, "the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She's like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts.
He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves?
Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.
Now as the Paradisiacal pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.
Artemis simple-toon
Jorinda and Jorindel
{Photo: The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.}
CHAPTER LXXIX THE LAST DAYS OF MARY MASTERS
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.
Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
Munificent nature follows the methods of the divine and true, and rounds all things to her perfect law. While nations are convulsed with blood and violence, how quietly the grass grows.
Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters: united with her, she is the mother of the arts and the source of her wonders.