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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.


Marcus T. Cicero

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There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Fear is caused by the uncertainty of the future. Sorrow is caused by the remembrance of the past. Tr...
JEFFREY FRY ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.
JANE AUSTEN Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
MARCEL PROUST Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH Remembrance of things past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume
JEAN DE BOUFFLERS Perhaps the remembrance of these things will prove a source of future pleasure.
VIRGIL When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, exc...
JULIA WARD HOWE Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah...know th...
ANONYMOUS Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS Twice does he live who can enjoy the remembrance of the past.
UNKNOWN For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL BEN JUDAH People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
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PAUL ACQUASANTA There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
ALFRED MUSSET There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
ALFRED DE MUSSET I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER In the face of bravery, there is the human spirit of honour and remembrance.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then p...
ANDREW SOLOMON Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
MAXIM GORKY In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred,It is a paryer for the future, ...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES The hymen of a lady signifies that,there is a world of pleasure in there,however no pain,no pleasure...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ i...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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MARCUS T. CICERO The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
MARCUS T. CICERO A friend is, as it were, a second self.
MARCUS T. CICERO Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
MARCUS T. CICERO It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
MARCUS T. CICERO If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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MARCUS T. CICERO I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than...
MARCUS T. CICERO The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.
MARCUS T. CICERO The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
MARCUS T. CICERO The foundation of justice is good faith.
MARCUS T. CICERO The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
MARCUS T. CICERO To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
MARCUS T. CICERO In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
MARCUS T. CICERO I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, th...
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MARCUS T. CICERO In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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MARCUS T. CICERO A man of courage is also full of faith.
MARCUS T. CICERO If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
MARCUS T. CICERO The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
MARCUS T. CICERO A good orator is pointed and impassioned.
MARCUS T. CICERO All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without dou...
MARCUS T. CICERO To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
MARCUS T. CICERO When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience.
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STEFAN ZWEIG probability is the very guide of life
LEONARD MLODINOW There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasur...
MARK TWAIN There is a certain kind of pleasure in weeping.
UNKNOWN Meditating, meditating in remembrance, Nanak has found peace. Twenty-four hours a day, I sing Your G...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ...
MARGARET ATWOOD The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this remembrance day. With dismay we ...
NORBERT LAMMERT The past weeks have shown us how much not only we Germans need this Remembrance Day.
NORBERT LAMMERT If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juve...
VOLTAIRE Wanting has to go. Wanting to be free from something that is not there is what you call "sorrow.” ...
U.G. KRISHNAMURTI Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the ...
ALBERT CAMUS In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG I even told Theresa this, it was a pleasure to coach against her these past four years. She can do e...
KATHY LANTER There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U...
ANGIE KARAN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There is a pleasure in affecting affectation
CHARLES LAMB It's complete hell. It's like taking sorrow and grief and pain and stretching it out. You can't get ...
KENDRA SKIDMORE The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
LANGSTON HUGHES There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
CHARLES DICKENS The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly ...
DAN HARRIS Marcus made it downstate twice so there's a little bit of a family thing there.
GARY BAUM Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow,
than another day?
(-The Avett Brothe...
COLLEEN HOOVER Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
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MOHAMMAD KHATAMI There is peace and rest and comfort in sorrow
SOREN KIERKEGAARD There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
DANTE ALIGHIERI There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
DANTE ALIGHIERI You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter...
THOMAS HARDY The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in reme...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Can’t hear… call back… good luck…”
“Nïx, I know you’re faking the static.” She...
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ABHIJIT NASKAR Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Justice renders to every one his due. [Lat., Justitia suum cuique distribuit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [Lat., Summum jus, summa injuria.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) By some fortuitous concourse of atoms. [Lat., Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Unraveling the web of Penelope. [Lat., Penelopae telam retexens.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Like lips like lettuce (i.e. like has met its like). (Lat., Similem habent labra lactucam.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
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CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and eve...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. [Lat., Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc p...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) A fool must now and then be right by chance.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vit...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. [Lat., Imago animi...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Li...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he di...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He used to raise a storm in a teapot. [Lat., Excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo sp...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Nothing dries sooner than a tear. [Lat., Nihil enim lacryma citius arescit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is better to wear out than to rust out.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsiste...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. [Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evert...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted. [Lat., Nemo unquam sapiens proditori cr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To-morrow will give some food for thought. [Lat., Aliquod crastinus dies ad cogitandum dabit.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the prov...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec d...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinqu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues. [Lat., Pietas fundamentum est omnium...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I add this also, that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. [Lat., Nullus est locus domestica sede ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood. [Lat., Improbi hominis est mendacio fallere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. [Lat., Esse oportet ut vivas, non vivere ut edas.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him. [Lat., Nemini fidas, nisi cum quo prius mul...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negli...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst. [Lat., Socr...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. [Lat., Fit ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I prefer silent prudence to loquacious folly. [Lat., Malo indisertam prudentiam, quam loquacem stu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you. [Lat., Nulla est ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. [Lat., Memoria est thesaurus omnium rerum e cus...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war. [Lat...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo pertur...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [Lat., Animi cultus q...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Certain signs precede certain events. [Lat., Certis rebus certa signa praecurrunt.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. [Lat., Adhue neminem cog...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) When they hold their tongues they cry out. [Lat., Cum tacent clamant.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) What's the good of it? for whose advantage? [Lat., Cui bono?]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos null...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. ...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Every evil in the bud is easily crushed; as it grows older, it becomes stronger. [Lat., Omne malu...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art. [Lat., Aegri quia non omne...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) The eyes, like sentinels, hold the highest place in the body. [Lat., Oculi, tanquam, speculatores,...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what inter...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
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