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Day 693: modus vivendi


The two of them must put aside the memory of war and seek a modus vivendi.




Word of the day
modus vivendi : an arrangement allowing people or groups of people who have different opinions or beliefs to work or live together
Quote of the day
“The truth is that there are two men in Ibsen—an idealist, exalted to the verge of sentimentality, and a critic, hard, inexorable, remorseless, to the verge of cynicism. What we call his "social philosophy" is a modus vivendi arrived at between them. Both agree in repudiating "marriage for love";”
― Henrik Ibsen, Love's Comedy

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