| purestblood @ 2004-04-20 22:54:00 |
| Current mood: | refreshed |
If Moses, Cyrus, Theseus, and Romulus had been unarmed they could not have enforced their constitutions for long--as happened in our time to Fra Girolamo Savonarola, who was ruined with his new order of things immediately the multitude believed in him no longer, and he had no means of keeping steadfast those who believed or of making the unbelievers believe. Therefore such as these have great difficulties in consummating their great enterprise, for all their dangers are are in the ascent, yet with ability they will overcome them; but when these are overcome, and those who envied them their success are exterminated, they will begin to be respected, and they will continue afterwards powerful, secure, honoured, and happy.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Comments:
| knight_to_h3 @ 2004-04-20 09:55 pm UTC |
WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN ON ABOUT?! LIKE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING YOU BLOODY IDIOT, NEVER THOUGHT I'D SAY THIS TO ANYONE BUT YOU NEED TO GROW UP AND STOP ACTING LIKE A TWELVE YEAR OLD WITH THE THINLY VEILED INSULTS WHICH LET ME SEE AREN'T FUCKING VEILED AT ALL!!!!!! AND THE SNIDE COMMENTS ABOUT MY FAMILY WHICH YOU'VE GOT NO RIGHT TO SAY AT ALL!! YOU'RE NOT SUPERIOR TO ANYONE! YOU'RE A FUCKING COWARD, MALFOY, GO ROT!!
| purestblood @ 2004-04-20 09:59 pm UTC |
Hrm... I don't see any references to your family in the above post but if it makes you feel better, feel free to infer all you wish into my thoughts.
Do enlighten me as to why you're reading my private journal.
| knight_to_h3 @ 2004-04-20 10:09 pm UTC |
YEAH OF COURSE I'M NOT REFERRING TO ANY OF THE SLIMY THINGS YOU'VE SAID THIS WEEK! And don't you fucking ask me inane shit that when you're commenting all over the place on other people's journals OH LIKE MINE FOR INSTANCE. You're part of the community, arsewipe, THAT MEANS WE ALL HAVE TO SEE ENTRIES YOU MAKE TO YOUR "PRIVATE" JOURNAL WHETHER WE WANT TO OR FUCKING NOT!
(parent)| lupercus @ 2004-04-21 12:18 am UTC Men's hatreds generally spring from fear or envy. |
By God, it can read.
But so can I.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
We shall never surrender.
Fortes fortuna uvat.
| purestblood @ 2004-04-21 12:27 am UTC Re: Men's hatreds generally spring from fear or envy. |
Further, if one sin is the cause of a second sin, in the same way, yet another sin will be the cause of the first, and thus we go on indefinitely, which is absurd.
Since a sin has a cause on the part of the act of sin, it is possible for one sin to be the cause of another as one human act is the cause of another.
| purestblood @ 2004-04-21 12:58 am UTC |
And what is suffering? I am not afraid of it, even if it were beyond reckoning. I am not afraid of it now. I was afraid of it before... And I seem to have such strength in me now, that I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist'. In thousands of agonies--I exist. I'm tormented on the rack--but I exist! Though I sit alone on a pillar--I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.
(parent)| purestblood @ 2004-04-21 11:06 am UTC |
The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.