January 15, 2020
Because “All Is Old and All Is New”
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O, I admire you, progeny of Roman origin! And now you look with fright upon our cold and sceptical face, You wonder how it is that the lie no longer passes today? When we see that all those who fling about grand words Hunt only after money and after gain without work, Today, when the polished phrase can deceive no longer, Today it is others who are to blame, my lords — is it not so? Too far have you shown your true metal in tearing this country apart, Too far have you made our nation a thing of shame and reproach, Too far have you mocked the language, the forefathers and the custom, For it not to be shown at last what you are — a pack of scoundrels! Yes, gain without work — behold the only impulse; Virtue? a foolishness; Genius? a misfortune. But leave the forefathers at least to sleep in the dust of the chronicles; Out of that past of greatness they would look upon you, at most, with irony. Why comest thou not, Lord Țepeș, to lay hands upon them, To divide them into two bands: into the mad and into the scoundrels, And to gather them by force into two wide prisons, And to set fire to the gaol and to the madhouse!”
The eternal Eminescu.
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