Iustum et tenacem propositi virum
non civium ardor prava iubentium,
non vultus instantis tyranni
mente quatit solida.
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The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.
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Book III, ode iii, line 1.Horace
An extreme, unconditional human yearning was expressed for the first time by Nietzsche independently of moral goals or of serving God. ... Ardor that doesn’t address a dramatically articulated moral obligation is a paradox. ... If we stop looking at states of ardor as simply preliminary to other and subsequent conditions grasped as beneficial, the state I propose seems a pure play of lightning, merely an empty consummation. Lacking any relation to material benefits such as power or the growth of the state (or of God or a Church or a party), this consuming can’t even be comprehended. ... I’ll have to face the same difficulties as Nietzsche—putting God and the good behind him, though all ablaze with the ardor possessed by those who lay down their lives for God or the good. ... I’ll admit that moral investigations that aim to surpass the good lead first of all to disorder.
Georges Bataille
It is most true, stylus virum arguit,—our style bewrays us.
Robert Burton
Temptanda via est, qua me quoque possim
Tollere humo victorque virum volitare per ora.Virgil
Difficile est tristi fingere mente iocum.
Tibullus
(Ma) l’animo gentile
gentil sempre pon mente
Al buon cuor di chi d?, non al presente.Niccolo Forteguerri
Horace
Horkheimer, Max
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