one cannot love and be wise
- one cannot love and be wise
Cf. PUBLILIUS SYRUS Sententiae xxii. amare et sapere vix deo conceditur, to love and to be wise is scarcely allowed to God.
c 1527 T. BERTHELET tr. Erasmus’ Sayings of Wise Men B1v To have a sadde [serious] mynde and loue is nat in one person.
1539 R. TAVERNER tr. Erasmus’ Adages II. A5 To be in loue and to be wyse is scase graunted to god.
1612 BACON Essays ‘Of Love’ xii. It is impossible to loue and bee wise.
1631 R. BRATHWAIT English Gentlewoman 32 The Louer is euer blinded..with affection..whence came that vsuall saying One cannot loue and be wise.
1872 G. ELIOT Middlemarch II. III. xxvii. If a man could not love and be wise, surely he could flirt and be wise at the same time?
2005 Hindustan Times 11 Oct. (online) The Delhi High Court last week refused to nullify the marriage of a 15-year-old girl on the ground that she had reached the ‘age of discretion’... That phrases like ‘one cannot love and be wise’..figured in the Delhi HC judgment is bewildering.
Proverbs new dictionary.
Look at other dictionaries:
wise — see it is easy to be wise after the event it is a wise child that knows its own father early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise a fool may give a wise man counsel fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer … Proverbs new dictionary
love — noun see love and a cough cannot be hid love begets love love is blind love laughs at locksmiths love makes the world go round love will find a way … Proverbs new dictionary
Wise Blood — Infobox Book name = Wise Blood title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Flannery O Connor illustrator = cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Southern Gothic novel publisher =… … Wikipedia
Love at first sight — is an emotional condition whereby a person feels romantic attraction for a stranger on the first encounter with the stranger. The term may be used to refer to a mere sexual attraction or crush, but it usually refers to actually falling in love… … Wikipedia
Wise Children — infobox Book | name = Wise Children title orig = translator = image caption = The front cover of Angela Carter s Wise Children (Vintage 2006 edition). author = Angela Carter illustrator = cover artist = Parra country = United Kingdom language =… … Wikipedia
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
Plato: ethics and politics — A.W.Price I Plato followed his teacher Socrates into ethics by way of a question that remained central in Greek thought: what is the relation between the virtues or excellences (aretai) of character, and happiness (eudaimonia)?1 Both concepts… … History of philosophy
Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… … History of philosophy
Spinoza: the moral and political philosophy — The moral and political philosophy of Spinoza Hans W.Blom Spinoza as a moral and political philosopher was the proponent of a radical and extremely consistent version of seventeenth century Dutch naturalism. As a consequence of the burgeoning… … History of philosophy
Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy — Hugh H.Benson INTRODUCTION Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil … History of philosophy
