Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch (46 - 119)
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絵画は沈黙の詩であり、詩は話す絵画である。 - プルタルコス［プルターク］ (46 - 119)
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: So they are [So you are] no longer two but one flesh. What God then has joined, man must not separate.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/heart-186032_1280edit312-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: Things longed for seem long in coming. / A watched pot [pan] never boils. / A watched pot is long in boiling.](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/clock-598837_640_soup-264284_640-100x75.jpg)
