Frasi di Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Data di nascita: 5. Maggio 1846
Data di morte: 15. Novembre 1916
Altri nomi:Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz è stato uno scrittore e giornalista polacco. È l'autore del celebre romanzo Quo vadis?, per il quale ha ricevuto nel 1905 il Premio Nobel per la letteratura.
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„In quanto ai miei servi, una cosa attrasse la mia attenzione. Che il perdono non solo non li rese insolenti e indisciplinati, ma nessuna paura di castigo li ha mai resi così zelanti e premurosi come la gratitudine. Non solo essi fanno il loro dovere, ma pare che rivaleggino l'un l'altro a indovinare i miei desiderî. Ti dico questo perchè il giorno prima di lasciare i cristiani, io dissi a Paolo che la società colla religione di Cristo, si sarebbe sfasciata come una botte senza cerchi; Paolo mi rispose che «l'amore è un cerchio più forte della paura». E ora vedo che in certi casi la sua opinione può essere giusta.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
1915, p. 124
„Ciascuno ha il diritto di reclamare ciò che gli è dovuto.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
da La famiglia Polaniecki
„No God has promised me immortality; hence no surprise meets me.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: No God has promised me immortality; hence no surprise meets me. At the same time thou art mistaken, Vinicius, in asserting that only thy God teaches man to die calmly. No. Our world knew, before thou wert born, that when the last cup was drained, it was time to go, — time to rest, — and it knows yet how to do that with calmness. Plato declares that virtue is music, that the life of a sage is harmony. If that be true, I shall die as I have lived, — virtuously.
Petronius, Ch. 72
„She wanted to be near her husband, and what would become of me was not taken into account.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: Aniela knew very well that her departure would be to me a more dangerous catastrophe than a wound on my head or the loss of an arm or leg; and yet she did not hesitate a moment. I was perfectly aware that it was all her doing. She wanted to be near her husband, and what would become of me was not taken into account.
11 July
„It is not merely a question of sorrow after the death of a beloved being, but of the reproaches she will apply to herself, thinking that if she had loved him more he might have clung more to his life.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: It is not merely a question of sorrow after the death of a beloved being, but of the reproaches she will apply to herself, thinking that if she had loved him more he might have clung more to his life. Empty, trivial, and unjust reproaches, for she did everything that force of will could command, — she spurned my love and remained pure and faithful to him. But one must know that soul full of scruples as I know it, to gauge the depth of misery into which the news would plunge her, and how she would suspect herself, — asking whether his death did not correspond to some deeply hidden desire on her part for freedom and happiness; whether it did not gratify those wishes she had scarcely dared to form.
13 November
„The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.
Letter of Petronius to Nero, Ch. 73
„I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune.“
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
Context: I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. I am the cause of your death, for if I had been a different man, if I had not been wanting in all principles, all foundations of life, there would not have come upon you the shocks that killed you.
Rome, 5 December
