Laudator Temporis Acti

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.28.9 (tr.

Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948), "Introduction" to Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy (vol. 1, pp. xiv-xv of the Everyman edition): The appreciation of Burton is a test of bookishness, and although he has never lacked readers, even during the d…

Cicero, On Old Age 19.71 (tr.

Leonardo Sciascia (1921-1989), The Day of the Owl, tr.

Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy ("Democritus Junior to the Reader," vol. 1, pp. 69-70 of the Everyman edition): Every man thinks with himself, Egomet videor mihi sanus [I regard myself as sane], I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.20.8-9 (tr.

At Father John Zuhlsdorf's blog, I saw the following quotation from Bishop Fulton Sheen: He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because he, the devil, is the ape of God.

From amazon.com's web page for John Cassian's Conferences: When John Cassian wrote his first novel, KILLING MATT COOPER, he didn't realize at the time that the story would grow in the telling.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

George G.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.16.15-18 (tr.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy ("Democritus Junior to the Reader," vol. 1, p. 25 of the Everyman edition): As a Dutch host, if you come to an inn in Germany and dislike your fare, diet, lodging, etc., replies in a surly tone, Aliud tibi…

John Cassian, Conferences 1.10.4 = Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, vol.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

Robert Burton (1577-1640), Anatomy of Melancholy ("Democritus Junior to the Reader," vol. 1, pp. 18-19 of the Everyman edition): I hear new news every day, and those ordinary rumours of war, plagues, fires, inundations, thefts, murders, massacres, meteors,

From Eric Thomson: Vercelli Book, Homily XV, f.85r: And the holy Peter goes with [them] and bears the keys of hell in his hand.

Homer, Odyssey, tr.

Cicero, On Old Age 19.67 (tr.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.9.20-21 (tr.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.9.19 (tr.

Frederic Van der Meer (1904-1994), Augustine the Bishop (London: Sheed and Ward, 1961), p. 139, with notes on p. 612: He knew the rich, their bad taste, the self-indulgence which ultimately made them its slaves, and their meanness, which often far exceeded

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837), "On the Monument to Dante Being Erected in Florence," lines 7-17 (tr.

Yesterday, at a playground with my granddaughter, I heard some children called by name.

George Eliot (1819-1880), Middlemarch, chapter XXIV: Mrs.

Augustine, Letters 213.1 (Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, vol. 57, p. 373; tr.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.6.30-32 (tr.

"Curated," in any context other than a museum or an art exhibit, e.g.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol.

F.F.

Genesis 31.3 (KJV): And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

Arrian, Discourses of Epictetus 1.3.7-9 (tr.