#circumstance — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #circumstance, aggregated by home.social.
-
DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
[Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory
-
A quotation from Josh Billings
Man kant make cirkumstanses, but he kan take them bi the horns, insted ov the tale.
[Man can’t make circumstances, but he can take them by the horns, instead of the tail.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1877-05 “Artikles Ov Faith” (1877 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/85012/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #action #agency #circumstance #dragging #following #goingalong #reaction #reallife #reality #world
-
Sooner or later, #Gardeners come to realize that more than anything else, they simply want #Plants with #Good #Manners.
True, almost any Plant can become a #Tyrant in the right #Circumstance.
But ask a gardener about the manners of #Ivy, #Creepers, #Bamboo, #Periwinkle, #StJohn'sWort, #LilyOfTheValley, #BishopsWeed, etc., and suddenly that #Sweet #Loving Plant #Person #Transforms into a #General with serious #War stories.
Some even have the #Scars to prove it.