Quote From the Twelve Caesars (3)
Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...
Julius Caesar was certainly a man of paradoxes, both in his own time, and in the annals of history. Suetonius writes in The Twelve Caesars of Caesar’s app...
The year was 49 BC. Caesar had a choice to make. Start a civil war in the Roman Republic or obey the orders of the Senate to give up his armies. Caesar was appa...
This is from Chapter One of Suetonius’ The Twelve Caesars. I’m reading the translation by Robert Graves, one of my favorite poets. Here is the quote...
We dallied in the secret garden, Our sitting legs variously crossed and uncomposed. And our children played. My child. And yours. Naked essence unaware, Of the ...
He often wondered what his last words would be. His very last thought. The last idea to emanate from his mind before he died. While he held her wrinkled old han...
Build your temple not, in space. But in the moment, where it never falls.
Prisms of isms, Logic self-perpetuates, But never answers.
How can what is Never not be? I was born … I know. I will die … I know. How can something be What ever always is? A thousand times I lived this life. A thousand...
Once written, its meaning is lost. Once spoken, the words go unheard. Once seen, it may not be seen again. Therefore, hold fast to Truth. As one would the hand ...
One man goes to heaven. One man goes to hell. Both brothers in blood, born from one mother.