Quicquam Quotes
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Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.
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An quicquam melius amicas divinitas mortalibus concesserit nescio. I do not know if the divinity has provided mortals with anything better than friends.
Pope Sylvester II— 0985 Letter to Abbot Gerald of Aurillac.
Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri, Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
— Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anybody can be grateful.LXXIII
Si quicquam cupido optantique optigit umquam insperanti, hoc est gratum animo proprie.
— If anything has happened to one who ever yearned and wished
but never hoped, that is a rare pleasure of the soul.CVII
Desine de quoquam quicquam bene velle mereri, Aut aliquem fieri posse putare pium.
— Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking that anybody can be grateful.
— LXXIII
Etsi difficiile esse videtur credere quicquam in rebus solido reperiri corpore posse. transit enim fulmen caeli per saepta domorum, clamor ut ad voces; flamen candescit in igni dissiliuntque ferre ferventi saxa vapore. tum labefactatus rigor auri solvitur aestu; tum glacies aeris flamma devicta liquescit; permanat calor argentum penetraleque frigus quando utrumque manu retinentes pocula rite sensimus infuso lympharum rore superne.
lucretius— And yet it is hard to believe that anything
in nature could stand revealed as solid matter.
The lightning of heaven goes through the walls of houses,
like shouts and speech; iron glows white in fire;
red-hot rocks are shattered by savage steam;
hard gold is softened and melted down by heat;
chilly brass, defeated by heat, turns liquid;
heat seeps through silver, so does piercing cold;
by custom raising the cup, we feel them both
as water is poured in, drop by drop, above.Book I, lines 487-496.
