“Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!” BelieveMayArtWarRememberFacesHeavenStarsCausesFashionProudHabitWanderRisingLatinSparesMarbleEvokeWandsBronze Author:Virgil
“Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.” IfsThinkingTryingMayDoneHonestHonest With Yourself Author:Margaret Cho
“The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and nobody can go ashore unnoticed by the guards. Its winter is mild because it is enclosed by a range of mountains which keeps out the fierce temperature; its summer is unequal. The open sea is very pleasant and it has a view of a beautiful bay.” BeautifulViewsSeaSolitudeMountainSummerWinterBoatAppealsRangePleasantLatinSurroundFierceModestTemperatureUnnoticedHarbour Author:Tacitus
“When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.” LittlesLatinCollapseRodents Author:Pliny the Elder
“Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.” IfsMenLittlesUseEarthWaterMoneyTechnologyFireAirElementsToolsVoteProfitAcquireSocialistPornographyTranslationsIncarnationAuschwitzAir And WaterMoralizing Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.” NatureMoneyTestsPreoccupationGreat Ones Author:Nicolas Chamfort
