Friedrich von Logau citáty
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Friedrich von Logau
Datum narození: 1605
Datum úmrtí: 24. červenec 1655
Friedrich von Logau byl německý básník.
Citáty Friedrich von Logau
„Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.“
— Friedrich von Logau
The best Medicine. (Sinngedichte, I, 4, 41, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
„Der gelbe Kern der Erde, das Gold, hat alle Macht,
Daß alles sonst für ihme wie Schalen wird geacht.“
— Friedrich von Logau
Untranslated, Deutsche Sinn-Getichte (1654) III, 5, 11.
„Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.“
— Friedrich von Logau
Retribution. (Sinngedichte III, 2, 24, published c. 1654, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). Compare: "God's mill grinds slow, but sure", George Herbert. Jacula Prudentum. Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such whom God is slow to punish".
