“Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.” MenSoulCarePassionSorrowDespairEmptyDepthEntertainmentBoredomDependentResentmentIdlenessGloomInsufficientChagrin Author:Blaise Pascal
“The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.” GivingCareOpportunityImaginationPovertyHistoryWifeDangerSolitudeFemaleDressesPainfulEntertainmentSensesTemptationMannersMidnightEleganceBarbariansRoman EmpireFrailtySecuredSpectaclesLuxuriousDomestic Life Book:The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith Source: The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith