But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.
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One hardly dares to say that love is the core of the relationship, though love is sought for and created in relationship; love is rather the marvel when it is there, but it is not always there, and to know another and to be known by another — that is everything.
Florida Scott-Maxwell (1883-1979) American-British playwright, author, psychologist
Women and Sometimes Men (1957)
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To know all things is not permitted.
[Nec scire fas est omnia.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 4, l. 22 (4.4.22) (23 BC)
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Common English translation, dating back to at least the late 19th Century.
In a number of translations, this phrase is elided or blurred into the surrounding text. Only distinct expressions of the sentiment are given below.
(Source (Latin)). Alternate translations:Not all of truth
We seekers find.
[tr. Conington (1872)]Neither is it possible to discover everything.
[tr. Smart/Buckley (1853)]Nor everything to know, may any mortal dare.
[tr. Martin (1864)]Nor is the lore
Of all things lore allowed.
[tr. Bulwer-Lytton (1870)]Neither is it lawful to know all things.
[tr. Elgood (1893)]For us to know
All things is not heaven's will.
[tr. Garnsey (1907)]All things man may not learn.
[tr. Marshall (1908)]Nor is it vouchsafed to know all things.
[tr. Bennett (Loeb) (1912)]Not all things may one know.
[tr. Mills (1924)]Nor should men sound all knowledge.
[tr. Michie (1963)]It is not lawful to know all things.
[tr. Alexander (1999)]It’s not right to know everything.
[tr. Kline (2015)]
