Dingo the Dissident

THE BLOG OF DISQUIET : Qweir Notions, an uncommonplace-book from the Armpit of Diogenes, binge-thinker jottings since 2008 .

Monday 19 November 2012

" Et miraris

quod paucis placeo cui cum paucis convenit,
cui omnia fere aliter videntur ac vulgo,
a quo semper quod longissime abest id penitus rectum iter censeo."

(Petrarch, Epistolæ de Rebus Familiaribus, Book XIX, Letter 7.)

3 comments:

Wofl said...

translation:

And you wonder that few men like me, even though I only get on with a few men — I who see almost everything differently from almost everyone, and who always consider the right approach to be the one that is as detached as possible from the crowd.

Jindra K. Hrdlička said...

Is Petrarch re-blogging You ?

Wofl said...

I think Petrarch has hacked into my blog, stolen my Identity...