“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
― The Histories
― The Histories
“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Freiheit und andere prächtige Namen dienen als Vorwand: denn noch nie hat jemand anderer Völker Knechtung und Herrschaft für sich angestrebt, ohne gerade jene Worte zu gebrauchen.”
― Historiae - The Histories: Bilingual parallel text: Latin - English
― Historiae - The Histories: Bilingual parallel text: Latin - English
“Yes,
You will rise from the ashes,
But the burning comes first.
For this part,
Darling,
You must be brave.”
―
You will rise from the ashes,
But the burning comes first.
For this part,
Darling,
You must be brave.”
―
“Accursed cowards, so eager to sleep in a brave man's bed! But listen - as when a fallow deer leaves the twin fawns just born to her to slumber in some great lion's den, while she herself goes roving and browsing over the mountain spurs and grassy hollows, but then the lion returns to his lair and strikes the two sucklings with hideous death, so will Odysseus strike these suitors with hideous death.”
― [The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)] [By: Homer] [April, 2003]
― [The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)] [By: Homer] [April, 2003]
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