The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca Category: Men
I am chained to the earth to pay for the freedom of my eyes. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Perspective
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great Category: History