A True Account of It

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." - Henry David Thoreau

Monday, March 29, 2010

Good Old Romans

I've come across a couple of good quotes from ancient Rome recently, thought I'd share a few.

"Carpe diem, quam

minimum credula

postero.

(Sieze the day,

put no trust in tomorrow.)"

-Horace

"A home without books is a body without soul."

-Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Outward looks are not enough,

Beauty is not common stuff-

Of merriment it is compact,

Playful grace in every act,

Witty laughter, laughing wit:

These are things that go with it."

-Petronius