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02-23-2013, 04:11 AM
Aphorism #288 Live for the Moment.

Our acts and thoughts and all must be determined by circumstances. Will when you may, for time and tide wait for no man. Do not live by certain fixed rules, except those that relate to the cardinal virtues. Nor let your will subscribe fixed conditions, for you may have to drink the water to-morrow which you cast away to-day. There be some so absurdly paradoxical that they expect all the circumstances of an action should bend to their eccentric whims and not vice versā. The wise man knows that the very polestar of prudence lies in steering by the wind.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=51qBLWbphaY:Mf4PH5HHmS4:yIl2A UoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?d=qj6IDK7rITs (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/ArtOfWorldlyWisdom?a=51qBLWbphaY:Mf4PH5HHmS4:qj6ID K7rITs)
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cafolini
02-23-2013, 11:57 AM
Here he's probably combining two Latin proverbs in a masterful way. "Water that you will not drink, let it flow untouched," and "never say 'I shall not drink of that water.'" Excellent. Ingenious in counteracting the church's idiocy that threathened with taking away his livelyhood if he did not shut up and refused to be pinned.