“By all means marry. If you get a good wife you’ll become happy. If you get a bad one you’ll become a philosopher.”-Socrates. “At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.”-Plato “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”-Aristotle
Quotes of the Day. On Friendship.
May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“What sweetness is left if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinfolk.”-Cicero “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and nods when I nod. May shadow does that much better.”-Plutarch “Of all the […]
Quotes of the day: On War.
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“In nothing less than war do events correspond to men’s calculation. Everything is at your disposal when adjusting a peace, but in battle you must be content with the fortune the gods shall impose upon you.”-Livy, attributed to Hannibal “An unjust peace is better than a just war.”-Cicero “In peace sons bury their fathers. In […]
Quotes of the Day
May 12, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.-Aristotle Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?-Cicero
Quotes of the Day
May 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of […]
Book Review: Rocha’s Treasure of Potosi
May 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Rocha’s Treasure of Potosi tells the story of two men from very different cultures whose paths cross and who become indispensable to each other. Kenwa is a Watusi from Africa, a large and powerful man. He is captured by Portuguese slave traders and brutally transported to South America, ending up in Potosi and forced to […]
Book Review: Sleep of the Innocents
May 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Soledad is a village in an unnamed country in Latin America where life has gone on with little change for centuries. Rosario and her husband, Anibal, eke out a living on a small plot of land. Their income is supplemented by Anibal’s work for Don Rafael, a large landowner, and by Rosario’s talented needlework. Rosario […]
Book Review: The Arms of Quirinus
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The Romans left behind written records of their affairs beginning with the founding of the Roman Republic in 509 B.C., but the era of kings is shrouded in myth. In her historical novel, The Arms of Quirinus, Sherrie Siebert Goff has taken these myths and woven an intriguing tale of the founding of Rome. Even […]
Her Majesty’s Will by David Blixt
April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Writing a novel about William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlow is an audacious venture, but I know of no writer who could pull it off as well as David Blixt. David Blixt is both a Shakespearian actor and a writer of historical fiction. Among his delightful creations are The Lord of Verona and Colossus, Stone and […]
Book Review: Twilight of the Elites:America After Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Twilight of the Elites is the most radical book I’ve read in recent years. It explains how our meritocratic system, when taken to its logical conclusion, undermines and destroys the very meritocracy it seeks to create. “America feels broken. Over the last decade, a nation accustomed to greatness has had to reconcile itself to an […]
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