“”Inasmuch as I am now an invisible spirit, I cannot visibly come to have speech with physical man, unless I adorn my ugly countenance with a certain corporeal beauty. I shall therefore enter this serpent which God has created with the face of a maiden and which most resembles man in beauty; and I shall speak with his tongue to Eve.” […]
“On the eleventh Nabu comes out to have some exercise; he goes to the park, and kills there wild bulls. He then returns and tales his (usual) place. He then blesses the king.” […]
“One day our father came to this very place crossing over a great stretch of sea; he left Aeolian Cyme and fled, not from riches and substance, but from wretched poverty which Zeus lays upon men, and he settled near Helicon in a miserable hamlet, Ascra, which is bad in winter, sultry in summer, and good at no time.” […]
The house of every man is to him as his castle and fortress. – Edward Coke, 17th Century AD
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. – Plutarch, 1st Century AD
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. – Sallust, 1st Century BC
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. – Tacitus, 1st Century AD
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. – Tacitus, 1st Century AD
To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace. – Tacitus, 1st Century AD
I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid. – Cato the Younger, 1st Century BC
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