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...Which means, to me at least, that man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it. It is for this reason that love becomes the ultimate human answer to the ultimate human question. Love, in reason's terms, answers nothing. We say that Amor vincit omnia but in truth love conquers nothing-certainly not death-certainly not chance...
...judge from his record so far, Pope John XXIII will face the dangers and confusions of his era with the patience expressed by his favorite maxim of government, and probably with more force than it suggests. The maxim: Omnia videre, multa dissimulare, pauca corrigere-to see everything, to turn a blind eye on much of it, to correct a little...
...traditionally glowing, donnishly funny praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats, 1927) was hailed as a debater who "does not shirk the task of leadership when the free world is at stake...
Nunc demum ver et Plautus adest; fons ardoris omnia irrigat. Qui modo adulescentes sobrii et severi crant, iam in theatro mirifice sunt amoris imperatores facti. Eheu, quam proterve K. Vadum Fractum, lascivi suboles gregis, iterum aestuat! Musae quidem Plautinae alto de caelo Cantabrigiam descenderunt; Risus Ludus Iocusque ubique vigescunt. Tempestas nobis arridet. O ver Plautinum! O collegium Harvardianum, nuper modestum morum bonorum praesidium, nunc vividum alacris motus gymnasium! Cavete igitur vos decani decanulique--"non intret Cato theatrum meum"--nec non vos, o septum novi homines qui ad spinosam Lapparum tutelam elevati estis. Quae enim saga Radcliffiensis, quis magus Harvardianus pollenti...
Quia me vestiga terrent, Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum. That's what Horace said, and it means "It frightens me to see all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning." Now it turns out that Horace didn't say these words at Cornell Saturday afternoon; on top of that, he never went to Harvard. But gentlemen, let us grant that Horace thinks and writes as if he were educated, along with the rest of us, in the Harvard Stadium, with time out for an occasional field trip to places such as Charlottesville or Ithaca...