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2025-02-14

A quotation from Molière

TARTUFFE: Some joys, it’s true, are wrong in Heaven’s eyes;
Yet Heaven is not averse to compromise;
There is a science, lately formulated.
Whereby one’s conscience may be liberated,
And any wrongful act you care to mention
May be redeemed by purity of intention.
I’ll teach you. Madam, the secrets of that science;
Meanwhile, just place on me your full reliance.
Assuage my keen desires, and feel no dread:
The sin, if any, shall be on my head.
 
[Le ciel défend, de vrai, certains contentements;
Mais on trouve avec lui des accommodements.
Selon divers besoins, il est une science
D’étendre les liens de notre conscience,
Et de rectifier le mal de l’action
Avec la pureté de notre intention.
De ces secrets, madame, on saura vous instruire ;
Vous n’avez seulement qu’à vous laisser conduire.
Contentez mon désir, et n’ayez point d’effroi ;
Je vous réponds de tout, et prends le mal sur moi.]


Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, Act 4, sc. 5 (1664) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/65413/

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-02-04

A quotation from Robert Bolt

MARGARET: Father, that man’s bad.
MORE: There is no law against that.
ROPER: There is! God’s law!
MORE: Then God can arrest him.

Robert Bolt (1924-1995) English dramatist
A Man for All Seasons, play, Act 1 (1960)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bolt-robert/74510/

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2024-10-15

A quotation from Housman, A. E.:

«
And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/housman-a-e/1965/

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2024-02-09

Middle Platonism represents the first two centuries of the current era (CE), it’s an amalgam of Platonism with Stoicism (with an emphasis on logos/divine law ordering the natural world) and Neo-Pythagoreanism (in view of its concept of emanation)... Continue reading at philosophy indefinitely...
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2023-12-26

A quotation from Bible, vol. 1, Old Testament:

«
You have been told, O mortal, what is good,
And what God requires of you:
Only to do justice
And to love goodness,
And to walk modestly with your God.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/bible-ot/4584/

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