Status Updates From Pro Archia poeta ; Post red...

…I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding [as reading]. [...] This adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. In the home it delights, in the world it hampers not. Through the night-watches, on all our journeying, and in our hours of country ease, it is our unfailing companion. p. 25

I marked one that muttered beneath his breath; and I was told that he muttered that I was intolerable... because, when asked to what state I belonged, I answered... "To a state which could not exist without me".

Ever modest Cicero