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  1. Retournant vivre au jardin et au champ(Tao Yuan-ming)

         Retournant vivre au jardin et au champ jeune, déjà mon tempérament ne s'adaptait guère au monde ma nature originelle aimait les montagnes par mégarde j'ai été pris dans les filets du monde de poussière, treize années durant je me suis absenté mais l'oiseau dans la cage a la nostalgie de son ancienne forêt, et le poisson dans le bassin songe à la gorge profonde d'autrefois maintenant je défriche la terre au sud entretenant ma rudesse, je suis retourné au jardin […]

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  2. A quotation from Horace

    The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none’s so wild,
    But may be tame, and may be wisely mild,
    If they consult true Vertue’s Rules with care,
    And lend to good advice a patient ear.
     
    [Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator,
    nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,
    si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas,” l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/78567/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #advice #anger #brutality #character #coarseness #culture #degradation #drunkenness #envy #faults #gluttony #lust #moralcharacter #norms #reform #rehabilitation #selfcontrol #selfimprovement #sloth #society #temperament #vice #virtue #wisdom #wrath

  3. A quotation from Euripides

    NURSE: Terrible is the temperament of royalty,
       Who are rarely controlled, always imperious;
       It is hard for them to give up their wrath.
       To get used to living like everybody else
       Is better.
     
    [ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: δεινὰ τυράννων λήματα καί πως
       ὀλίγ᾽ ἀρχόμενοι, πολλὰ κρατοῦντες
       χαλεπῶς ὀργὰς μεταβάλλουσιν.
       τὸ γὰρ εἰθίσθαι ζῆν ἐπ᾽ ἴσοισιν
       κρεῖσσον.]

    Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
    Medea [Μήδεια], l. 119ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80529/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #absolutepower #abuseofpower #anger #badmood #badtemper #compromise #equality #power #rage #royalty #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #temper #temperament #tyrant #indignation #grudge #wrath #tantrum

  4. CW: USPol - Trump, tariffs

    As a consequence of these various #personality, #temperament, and #intellectual #deficits, Trump is, for a world leader, amazingly easy to #manipulate.

    If you #butter him up, and suggest doing something will make him look good - well, there's a good chance he'll listen intently. He likes to listen to people telling him he's wonderful, and giving him easy ways to appear more wonderful. Much better than listening to people asking him to choose between tough or ugly choices on complicated subjects.

    He's also got that tendency where he believes whatever the last person he spoke to told him. This is why people - remember those oligarchs who were literally in front-row seats at his inauguration? - want to be close to him, figuratively and literally. If you keep his #ear, you can keep him behind your needs, your ideas, your wants.

    So, given all this, why the hell did he declare #economic #war on #Canada (and Mexico, and China, but I'm #Canadian) when it was:

    (a) obviously a bad idea for the US and the world #economy; there will be pain, and it will hurt him - price of eggs and all that
    (b) not something that was going to personally #profit him in any big way
    (c) not in the interests of his #billionaire oligarchs
    (d) not a primary plank in his campaign - at least not in this scorched-earth approach he's taken

    Why?

    2/x

    #reasons #manipulation #goldfish #compliment #flattery