Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish. - Pseudo-Longinus

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Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish.

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About Pseudo-Longinus

Longinus (or Pseudo-Longinus) is the name conventionally given to the author of an influential work of literary criticism, On the Sublime, the author's real name being unknown. He wrote in Greek and probably lived in the 1st century AD.

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Native Name: Λογγίνος
Alternative Names: Dionysius Longinus
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All who aim at elevation are so anxious to escape the reproach of being weak and dry that they are carried, as by some strange law of nature, into the opposite extreme. They put their trust in the maxim that 'failure in a great attempt is at least a noble error'.
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