The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. – Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. – Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. – Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. – Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. – Winston Churchill