Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Cymbeline -

Plenty and peace breed cowards.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Horace -

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt."

“They change their sky, not their souls, who cross the sea.”

Wednesday, January 06, 2016