Robert Fagles quotes
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“I admire the ambition of the project, and the generosity of many of the lines.”
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“The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.”
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“The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.”
-- Robert Fagles
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 56), 1937.
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“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.”
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“It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.”
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“Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.”
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“You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.”
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