Officium Quotes

#1. That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.
[Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. impudicitia in ingenuo crimen est, in servo necessitas, in liberto officium ("to be the object of anal penetration is a crime in the freeborn, a necessity for a slave, a duty for a freedman").

David Graeber

#3. Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Love is the driver for all great stories: not just romantic love, but the love of parent for child, for family, for country.

Jojo Moyes

#5. I laid my head on his chest as he kissed the top of my head. I could have stayed there forever. It felt like coming home.

R.K. Lilley

#6. Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#7. Ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness (living in the moment), and action. Who wouldn't, at certain points in their lives, benefit from kicking one or two of them up a notch? What was important was being able to turn them back down.

Kevin Dutton

#8. The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.

Bauvard

#9. Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

Harvey Korman