Jean Pierre Claris de Florian

“ As oft with men of seeming sense,
Led them to strive for precedence.
Perhaps, my friend, you may deride
The thought of asses having pride;
But are not others sometimes vain,
And aim at rank they can't attain? ”

“ Grimalkin sat with wond'ring eyes
As she beheld her friend's surprise,
And ventur'd this remark to make:
"That you and I are lov'd, 'tis true;
But what a fool, indeed, are you,
To think we're priz'd for our sake!" ”

“ The old man answer'd:—"There's a way
Which is glorious, I may say:
Though 'tis the way least understood;—
It is to serve the common good;
To give one's life, one's toil, one's care
In useful service of the state." ”

“ Oh how I hate that pedant art,
So captious and so very smart,
Which of a thing as clear as light,
Makes all obscure and dark as night;
Makes error right, and proves to you
That truth itself must be untrue! ”

“ To say she had on such things fed—
That they were good and sweet,
And fit to eat.
What fools are young folks to believe
Old women's tales—they but deceive!
The devil take such fruit,
And granny too, to boot! ”

“ After the principle of being true to the text, for a work the next important thing is consistency through the work. So (within reason) the primary contributor to a work sets the pattern to a work and we ask that they give instruction on the Index talk: page for little quirks. To note that many do not know how to do curly quotes, and they are not on (most) keyboards. Plus, anecdotal evidence that where a primary contributor makes the text complex to proofread, this can prove a disincentive to others to validate. ”

“ But this good reason serves to give
Why we make merry while we live.
We study friendship, love, and peace,
And our enjoyments thus increase.
Life we embellish all we may,
By kind attentions all the day. ”

“ There's nothing here but good.
The flood is to a deluge grown,
The whole world now is overflown,
And its domination is our own.
What is the need, midst such a sea,
In fear of hooks or hawks to be? ”

“ Yet is your voice than his more sweet,
Or have you any better feet,
That you should venture thus to quiz?
And as for plumage, let me say,
You never yet will see the day,
When yours will equal his. ”

“ What! are you kings, that you should be
With lives of innocents so free?
What right have you, I'd like to know,
To deal around you death and woe,
Like emperors, whose sport it is,
To slay mankind like partridges? ”

“ Against th' infernal thirst for blood
Indulged by tyrants of the wood.
He spoke of helpless innocence,
Oppress'd by lawless insolence;
Dwelt on the vices of the great;
Their love of power insatiate ”

“ Our hearts can love, yet, from lust free,
Observe the laws of chastity;
And ne'er do we our honors earn
By loss of virtue in return.
Since this is so, how can you then,
Think we possess the souls of men? ”

“ I prefer to edit because I get to read as I edit and by editing I am giving to a system that provides for others. What I do not want to do is spend slow time learning something that I am not interested in such as creating a portal because in that same amount of time I could be editing. Editing is a "must" and it is there that I contribute freely and happily. I enjoy what I do. If others like us felt that way we would have more workers doing whatever they like the best. ”

“ That I was friends with John, with you, and even worked with Cygnis for quite a long time? I find it odd how I, the one who initially sent to the CUs what I found as really problematic emails and complained about Poetlister's use of Wikisource to try and get real life information of me and others to go ignored and to have that happen. Why are my concerns to be met with outright dismissal as quoted by Hesperian before any warnings? Why am I treated like someone who doesn't have the right to be protected and then, when I air a concern I am bullied? ”

“ THE VIPER AND THE BLOOD-SUCKER.
Once to the leech the viper said—
"How different is our lot!
They who love you would wish me dead;
Men like me not.
They seem to bear for me some spite,
While on their blood they let you feed. ”

“ Must soon or later have a fall.
Though reason, virtue, rule, and law
Against young inclinations draw
Like a check-rein,
Your fiery passions to restrain;
They are the needed balance-pole,
To keep your fame and fortune whole. ”

“ Merely for want of being fed.
"Alas!" folks cried, "how can we spare
A songster so beyond compare!
How could he die?—a bird so rare!"
But while they thus express surprise,
The crow keeps up his stunning cries,
And still is fed on cakes and pies. ”

“ Once said the ivy to the thyme.
"You always creep and never climb.
Whilst scarce above the ground you rise,
I mount this oak and seek the skies:—
The old oak which Jove cherishes,
My comrade is." ”

“ Strive to amuse him with my tricks,
Learn'd in the school of politics,
While you, my brother, are a flat,
And serve him merely as a cat.
The real secret of success,
In cunning lies, not usefulness. ”

“ At length one day two Grecians came,
Attracted by his laughing fame,
And in amazement wish'd to know
How any mortal living so,
Could laugh. "How can you laugh, Mysone,"
They ask'd, "since you live all alone?" ”

“ Is to have lovers ev'ry day:
What song can e'er impart the bliss
The lover feels from one sweet kiss?"
To this the linnet warbl'd low:—
"I could not venture to compare
One with the other; but I know
How great the charms of music are:
If these I have,
No other pleasure do I crave." ”

“ She left the glass and went for mice.
"For what," thought she, "can be the use
Pursuing matters so abstruse?"
Involv'd in snares without an end,
Which none can ever comprehend,
Let wise philosophers discuss,
What has no use for them or us. ”

“ Until at last I am brought here,
To terminate my sad career.
From this career you may take heed,
Lest your small faults to great ones lead.
The slightest wrong, however small,
May lead the wisest to his fall. ”

“ And all the monsters of the wood:
Condemns their ravenous thirst for blood,
Their gluttony, their rage, their spite,
Their love of wrong, contempt of right,
The selfish use they make of war,
Et cetera, et cetera. ”

“ All things for which you strive and live.
To fools it gives intelligence;
And to the guilty innocence.
Honors on rascals it bestows,
And to old women brings young beaux;
Secures old men young, pretty wives ”

“ First, from the lowest hell there came
Three spirits of most dreadful fame,
Fever, Gout, and War.
Death gave them welcome; for, of all
The ills that plague our earthly ball,
These most dreaded are. ”

“ It must be admitted that the artist has done his author full justice, although the fables are so highly esteemed by some that they have been favorably compared with, and even equalled, to those of La Fontaine. The world will hardly assent to that opinion, perhaps, but still Florian's fables will ever be found interesting and instructive, and for this reason these selections from them are now offered to the American public. ”

“ No strong feelings as long as DNB01 is upgraded to the functionality of DNB00. I'm quite happy to allow others to worry about the underlying structure. PBS has been working on WP to make a standard scheme for various references. It doesn't follow that here on WS everything has to go the same way (though it would be a great help to have a Catholic Encyclopedia template that was in good order) . The provision of maintenance categories for the DNB project is a big plus, simply because of the scale and the usefulness of having multiple ways to check up on possible defects. ”

“ Each book that is a creation in its entity too, has a flow to it, has copyright, etc. and that should be preserved as part of its entity, not just as a component of the alone. There are many works that need to co-exist with the same or similar, or changing names and we need to have the scope to host them on-site, be they works of the same name, various editions of the same work, or various translations of the same work by the same or different translators. ”

“ Don't other birds do even so?"
"Oh no, indeed," the dove rejoined;
"You'll never peace in that way find.
If thus you irritate your mate,
You give him cause for all his hate."
"I give him cause!" ”

“ Not all works are easy to check for missing pages due to the practice of image pages not being numbered. Some of us may not have your bandwidth speed (up and down) so it can be problematic to download a work, and then upload into Commons, especially the bigger higher quality works. I know that it is very easy to do a direct upload from archive.org to Commons, and maybe we can miss of the impure aspects of a djvu file when operating that way. ”

“ Before their mastery I yield,
And must forever quit the field."
"Nay," said the shepherd, "that's the way
To give those croakers their full sway.
To silence you is what they want,
And strive to do it by that rant. ”

“ There exists plenty of discussion about about linking and especially in around the subject matter of moving data from Wikisource to Portal. Public view content sits in main, author and portal namespace, and annotations (this discussion) sit within a simple subset of main namespace; the other spaces are either workspace, or organisational in practice, and there is no general requirement to link to these from works, in fact the practice has been actively removed such links. Why make it more complex than it has to be? ”

“ Why does he choose this desert waste,
While sparrows round my palace feast?"
His tutor answer'd:—"This will show
What some day you will come to know;
Fools crowd in plenty to be bought,
While merit hides, and must be sought." ”

“ All that could appear after the page status link, with a few bits of text; icons and boxification are unnecessary, the formatting of the Index template is already cluttered enough. Putting it next to page status seems appropriate, it is a link most would use once, if at all. It is not confusing to me, just annoying that it overlaps the TOC that seems agreeable and used by most, yet are still confusing except to the initiated. Paths away from the site need labelling as such, icons, even with hover text, create more problems, eg. interfering with those who want or need text-only access. ”

“ That animals all equal are;
So let the play go on, I say;
Yes, let us have the play."
Delighted by his words so fair,
As by fair words folks always are,
The crowd believes as others do,
And once again their sports renew. ”

“ Who thereupon decreed these laws:—
That brawls and blood-shed to prevent,
All into exile must be sent
Who civil war and strife foment;
And never more should lions come
Within his realms to make their home. ”

“ Wikisource has kept its policies simple, and to a lesser number. We step into what is the principle of what we are doing and look to an outcome focus, and we have plenty of process and evidence for what we are doing as working well. Starting to get into blackletter law of what is in and what is out is just a recipe for disaster, and brings into play binary in or out. ”

“ First saw at home a looking-glass,
In which it often fondly gazed.
At length, by a mere child's caprice,
But which the grown man often shows,
Its raptures for the mirror cease,
At which it ugly glances throws. ”

“ Which common folks may understand,
Please listen to the tale I tell,
And on its meaning ponder well.
A man whose business 'twas to show
A magic lantern round,
Had a fine monkey, hight Jacqueau,
The nicest trickster ever found. ”

“ I think most newbs learn to code by reading and editing code, not by reading documentation. Therefore I want our code to be simple and intuitive. I want code that any reasonably clueful newb can look at and pretty much instantly figure out what it does. There is a trend here towards more and more esoteric shorthand code, and I don't approve. Specific issues: Template redirects like "c" and "sc" should be routinely replaced with their full-name equivalents "center" and "small-caps". I support keeping, and continuing to use, these redirects because they save experienced users time and effort. ”

“ One of these methods that is very effective is to keep the construct of a book/work, and to have all the components as subparts/subpages.With regard to a listing, I would suggest that we have found that listing the work at a page like Portal:Christianity and the relevant author pages as more effective, than categorisation schemes. That said, when the proposed development of wiki technology to list by subpage name is enacted, I would suggest that the site would be looking to utilise that capability. ”

“ Or I'll hang ev'ry mother's son!"
"Be quiet, father," said the boy,
"We are all decent fellows here;
So be appeas'd and do not fear;
We would not in the least annoy:
We leave the bad ones for your sake,
'Tis only sound ones that we take." ”

“ THE TWO GARDENERS.
Two brother gardeners had the lot
To fall heirs to a garden spot.
They halved in peace the legacy,
Working together day by day,
Living in perfect amity,
Each managing in his own way. ”

“ I feel that simplifying table coding does more for the newbies than filling with much lots of raw code.
We probably also want to look at including Category:Redirected templates that can also can be tidied in pa (r|s) sing. At the same time I do want for us to at least cover the idea of code bloat. I have seen examples when a page is expanded where it was div div div div span span span span span for some simple formatting where it could have all been wrapped in the one div, and trying to work out a problem was a bit of a nightmare. ”

“ The Egyptians were of all most fam'd.
No people ever were more wise,
More law-abiding or discreet—
None more religious 'neath the skies:
For that alone I think it meet
That Egypt should bear off the prize. ”

“ They sometimes find them, here and there,
But very small and very rare:
So that they prove of little worth.
The truest man of all the earth,
With strongest mind and purest heart,
Can see himself therein but part. ”