Posted on October 30, 2018June 21, 2020 “The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly.”—Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, 1466-1536
Posted on October 29, 2018 “Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.”—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, 1561-1626
Posted on October 28, 2018October 28, 2018 “One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.”—A.L. Rowse, British historian, 1903-1997
Posted on October 3, 2018 “The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist, 1841-1935
Posted on October 1, 2018October 1, 2018 “To the man seeking power the poorest man is the most useful.”—Sallust, Roman historian, 86-35 BC
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