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Shine with your absence

Marie Joseph Chenier

Phraseologism: Shine with your absence.

Meaning: About famous people who are not anywhere.

Origin: An expression from the tragedy of Marie-Joseph Chenier (1764-1811) "Tiberius" (1819): "Brutus and Cassius shone with their absence." This expression goes back to the Roman historian Tacitus, who in the "Annals" (3, 76), talking about the funeral of the deceased in 22 AD. e. noble Roman woman, wife of Cassius and sister of Brutus, says that in front of the funeral procession, according to the custom of the Romans, they carried images of the relatives of the deceased, but "Cassius and Brutus shone precisely because of the absence of their images" (Buchmann, Geflugelte Worte).

Random phraseology:

The worse, the better.

Meaning:

Expecting worsening of events or facilitating this with the aim of deriving probable personal benefit or obtaining moral satisfaction.

Origin:

The expression became popular in its well-known, politicized sense thanks to F.M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881), who used this expression in the novel (part 3, ch. 9) "The Humiliated and Insulted" (1861). He would later repeat it in his Diary of a Writer (January, 1881). The same turnover is also found in a letter from A.S. Pushkin to P.A. Vyazemsky (dated June 24-25, 1824): “I wanted to talk with you about changing the ministry. What do you think about this? I am both glad and not "For a long time, the motto of every Russian has been the worse, the better. The Russian opposition, which, thanks to the Russian God, was made up of our writers, whatever it was, was already getting into some kind of impatience, which I secretly teased, expecting something."

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