WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 23 May 2026 14:55:40 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg encumbrance – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Apuleius -- Apologia; or, A Discourse on Magic [Apologia; seu, Pro Se de Magia], ch. 21 [tr. Bohn’s (1853)] https://wist.info/apuleius/42519/ https://wist.info/apuleius/42519/#respond Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:24:11 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=42519 It is with life just as with swimming; that man is the most expert who is the most disengaged from all encumbrances.

[Ad vivendum velut ad natandum is melior qui onere liberior.]


Apuleius (AD c. 124 - c. 170) Numidian Roman writer, philosopher, rhetorician [Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis]
Apologia; or, A Discourse on Magic [Apologia; seu, Pro Se de Magia], ch. 21 [tr. Bohn’s (1853)]
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Alt. trans.:
  • "We live, just as we swim, all the better for being but lightly burdened." [tr. Butler (1909)]
  • "He is better equipped for life, as for swimming, who has the less to carry."
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