Though the speaker never explains precisely why this love is hopeless, it's clear that there's no getting around it: Fate herself (personified as a "jealous" tyrant queen) stymies the would-be couple at every turn, driving "iron wedges" between them. The pair, then, is left to love ...
Once he’s transcended his lowly station, a Capricorn man has to work hard to remember where he came from and stay somewhat humble – as it’s easy for the deadly combination of ego, power, and money to turn Mr. Goat into a bit of a tyrant. These men often end up in positions of...
The tyrant Phayllus74 fell in love with the wife of Ariston, chief75 of the Oetaeans: he sent envoys to her, with promises of much silver and gold, and told them to add that if there were anything else which she wanted, she should not fail of her desire. Now she had a great ...
Love is a tyrant, resisted.John Ford To love and win is the best thing; to love and lose, the next best. William Makepeace Thackeray Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other. W. Somerset Maugham In real love, you want the other person's good. In romantic...
My mother is getting better at this, but my grandmother is a tyrant. It’s awful. Nothing we do is right and everything is about her. She passes this along to my sister’s children and my children. It gets to the point where I dont want them around her. She makes us all feel ...
However, when the shine and excitement of the presents and the parties began to wear off,the young Princess found out that her handsome young husband wasn’t as wonderful as she had expected. He behaved like a tyrant towards his people, he boasted about his wife as though she was a hunti...
I subscribe to others, yet find myself returning to the Blog Tyrant. I write out of sheer joy, and have yet to allow responses to my posts. (Perhaps I’m just too fragile for criticism being a two-month neophyte and all). Your bottom line – try and help people- is my mantra. I...
We love our parents and our children. We love our friends. There’s a whole neglected tradition of love between friends that has nothing to do with physical attraction. If we think about it, physical attraction does not necessarily have anything to do with love. Tomorrow is the feast of ...
Once he’s transcended his lowly station, a Capricorn man has to work hard to remember where he came from and stay somewhat humble – as it’s easy for the deadly combination of ego, power, and money to turn Mr. Goat into a bit of a tyrant. These men often end up in positions of...
As Nietzsche puts it, “When one finds it necessary to turn reason into a tyrant, as Socrates did, the danger cannot be slight that something else will play the tyrant” ([10], p. 478). Socrates, that is, correctly diagnoses a dangerous situation for all Greek culture, and his ...