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The fortunes of permanence. (The survival of culture: X).
Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which you are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked.... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal, and that you are a paralytic.
-- G. K. Chesterton, As I Was Saying
How but in custom and in ceremony Are innocence and beauty born? Ceremony's a name for the rich horn, And custom the spreading laurel tree.
-- W. B. Yeats, "A Prayer For My Daughter"
"Seven and a half hours of mild, unexhausting labour, and then the soma ration and games and unrestricted copulation and the feelies. What more can they ask for?"
--Mustapha Mond in Huxley's Brave New World
I remember the first time I noticed the legend "cultural instructions" on the brochure that accompanied some seedlings. "How quaint," I thought, as I pursued the advisory: this much water and that much sun, certain tips about fertilizer, soil, and drainage. Planting one sort of flower nearby keeps the bugs away but proximity to another sort makes bad things happen. Young shoots might need stakes, and watch out for beetles, weeds, and unseasonable frosts...
- Paideia Romana; Cicero's Tusculan disputations.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2008 700+ words
...Paideia Romana; Cicero's Tusculan disputations. Gildenhard, Ingo. Cambridge...supplementary v. 30 PA6304 The Tusculan Disputations of Cicero have long been disparaged...Latin literature and Roman culture, Durham University UK) disagrees...
- Tusculan Disputations
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS January 1, 1996 700+ words
Tusculan Disputations ( Tusculānae disputatiōnēs , ‘discussions at Tusculum’ ), philosophical...
- Books received.
- Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly June 22, 2001 700+ words
...xi + 452. $75.00. Cicero. Cicero on the Emotions: Tusculan Disputations 3 and 4. Translated and with commentary by Margaret Graver...1998. Pp. 471. Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary...
- PEDANTIC PRESIDENT IS NOT A GOOD FIT.(Editorial)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) June 21, 2002 700+ words
...commencement speech Bush was about to make at Ohio State on the culture of public service. "He's building on notions of duty...they're not going out" - was in fact relying upon the Tusculan Disputations and the Nicomachean Ethics? Surely no close reader of Emily...
- Philosophy: Relations to other Intellectual Realms
- Dictionary definition from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Stone, M. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...called philosophy down from the heavens" and thereby made the study of nature instrumental to human happiness ( Tusculan Disputations, 5.X – XI; cf. Diogenes Laertius, De vita et moribus philosophorum, II. 16, 45). In other...
- Archimedes
- Dictionary definition from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography January 1, 2008 700+ words
...inscription giving the ratio by which the including solid exceeds the included. ” And indeed Cicero (see Tusculan Disputations , V, xxiii, 64 – 66), when he was Quaestor in Sicily in 75 b.c., ...tracked out his grave...
- Exemplary grief: gender and virtue in Seneca's consolations to women.
- Magazine article from: Helios Wilcox, Amanda March 22, 2006 700+ words
...counsel, and not wait for the medicine of time, [a remedy] which we can anticipate by reasoning. In his Tusculan Disputations, Cicero recounts a list of famous fathers who refused to mourn their sons because they considered grief unbefitting...
- Dialectique et litterature: Les avatars de la dispute entre Moyen Age et...
- Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly Bowen, Barbara C. June 22, 2006 700+ words
...but her actual range is wider than this; in part 1 she discusses in some detail Aristotle, Cicero (whose Tusculan Disputations technically are not "disputes"), and Augustine. After a brief introduction relating Pasquier's Pourparler...
