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Tom Hiddleston
“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama: fathers and sons, star-crossed lovers, warring brothers, martyred heroes. Tales that taught us the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. It’s the everyday stuff of everyman’s life, but it’s writ large, and we love it.”
Tom Hiddleston

“Maar als de Europese instellingen principieel niet bereid zijn om de geschiedenis en de tradities van hun werelddeel te accepteren en die erfenis niet als essentieel kenmerk van de eigen toekomst te erkennen, dan zal de Europese Unie door haar burgers nooit anders beschouwd worden als een lege huls, die zij bereid zijn te tolereren zolang het met de maatschappij goed gaat, maar die zij zonder aarzelen zullen opofferen zodra andere politieke alternatieven een betere toekomst lijken te bieden.”
David Engels, Le Déclin: La crise de l'Union européenne et la chute de la République romaine

Livy
“Indeed, that is the nature of crowds: the mob is either a humble slave or a cruel aster. As for the middle way of liberty, the mob can neither take it nor keep it with any respect for moderation or law.”
Livy, The History of Rome, Books 21-30: The War with Hannibal

Ernest Hemingway
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
Ernest Hemingway

Gustav Mahler
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
Gustav Mahler

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Jeroen
810 books | 91 friends

Nathalie
2,265 books | 35 friends

Leonda ...
532 books | 2,064 friends

Vincent...
190 books | 14 friends

Maxim V...
139 books | 14 friends

Tess
280 books | 62 friends

Stefanie
315 books | 6 friends

Jeroen ...
100 books | 27 friends

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