WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 3

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

There are people who resemble popular songs: they are sung for a time and then forgotten.
 
[Il y a des gens qui ressemblent aux vaudevilles, qu’on ne chante qu’un certain temps.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶211 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 13, 2025

A quotation from Montaigne

The man who makes it his business to please the multitude is never done.

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne, ch. 34 [ed. Marven Lowenthal (1935)]

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 2, 2023

A quotation from Martial:

«
Lucky yet sad? My friend, should Fortune find
You lacking gratitude, she’ll change her mind.

[Tristis es et felix. Sciat hoc Fortuna caveto:
Ingratum dicet te, Lupe, si scierit.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/martial/65153/

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Epigrams [Epigrammata], Book 6, epigram 79 (6.79) (AD 91) [tr. B. Hill (1972)] - Martial | WIST Quotations

Lucky yet sad? My friend, should Fortune find You lacking gratitude, she'll change her mind. [Tristis es et felix. Sciat hoc Fortuna caveto: Ingratum dicet te, Lupe, si scierit.] "To Lupus." (Source (Latin)). Alternate translations: Th' art rich & sad; take heed lest fortune know; She 'll call th' unthankefull,…

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WIST Quotations moves again!May 25, 2023

A quotation from Virgil:

«««««
A woman is a fickle, changeful thing!

[Varium et mutabile semper
femina.]
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/virgil/20210/

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