Being tired Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“I am not so fortunate as to have Virgil as my guide, but I do have Dante as my inspiration.”

— Michael H. Stone

“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of…

— Pierre Bayle

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not…

— Jonathan Swift

“I liked to call myself a poet and had affected a habit of reading classical texts (in translation, of course – I was a…

— Mary Karr

“Words which he did not understand he said over and over to himself till he had learnt them by heart: and through them he…

— James Joyce

“Throw that dreary man Cicero out of the window, and request the divine Virgil (with the utmost love and respect) to take a seat…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“when the Lord built the world he furrowed his brow calculated calculated calculated that is why the world is perfect and uninhabitable instead the…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“As long as he followed the fixed definition of obscure words such as spirit, will, freedom, essence, purposely letting himself go into the snare…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2”

— Robert Galbraith