Famous quotes containing the words losing, trick and/or count:
“Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)