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ORDRE TU (Gabrielle Althen)
ORDRE TU Rose qui me regardez, présence sans son nom, rose penchée qui me tendez le monde, vous tremblez. Et je vous prie encore, silencieuse très nue, mon admirable en vain, de penser pour moi qui pense mal à vous. * Enveloppe du silence, mutisme du solstice, le rayonnement pourtant d'une rose dans l'or absent, où l'éloquence écoute. * Signe, cette rose, toute seule contre un ciel abandonné des ors mortels de l'automne. Mes mots se sont enfuis, que l'opéra […]https://arbrealettres.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/ordre-tu-gabrielle-althen/
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To go on with my advice (that is, supposing
You need advice from me): Be careful about
The things you say and the people to whom you say them.
Avoid the man who asks too many questions.
No question but he’ll be a teller of tales;
An ear that eager can’t keep a secret for long,
And once a word slips out it won’t come back.
[Protinus ut moneam (si quid monitoris eges tu)
quid de quoque viro et cui dicas, saepe videto,
percontatorem fugito: nam garrulus idem est,
nec retinent patulae commissa fideliter aures,
et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 18 “To Lollius,” l. 67ff (1.18.67-71) (20 BC) [tr. Ferry (2001)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/20802/
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rules on composition: it produces vigilance rather than elevation, rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often escapes miscarriages but seldom reaches either power or honor. It quenches that ardor of enterprise by which every thing is done that can claim praise or admiration; and represses that generous temerity which often fails and often succeeds. Rules may obviate faults, but can never confer beauties; and prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-05-19), The Idler, No. 57More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/2133/
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[Even] the wise act within the limitations of their own nature.
- Sri Krishna, 3-33#Sanskrit: स्वदृशं चेष्टते स्वस्याः प्रकृतेर्ज्ञानवानपि
#Kannada script: ಸ್ವದೃಶಂ ಚೇಷ್ಟತೇ ಸ್ವಸ್ಯಾಃ ಪ್ರಕೃತೇರ್ಜ್ಞಾನವಾನಪಿ#philosophy #easternPhilosophy #gita #discretion #wisdom #awareness