Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (2)
Meditations is a remarkable collection of personal reflections by the Stoic Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from 161 to 180 AD. Quote: … that the lo...
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Quotes From Meditations By Marcus Aurelius (1)
From Book Two: Finally, the intelligence. Think of it this way: You are an old man. Stop allowing your mind to be a slave, to be jerked about by selfish impulse...
Quotes From the Twelve Caesars (4)
This will be my last post on Julius Caesar (the first of the twelve Caesars). We’ll be moving on to Augustus soon enough! Julius Caesar was an enigmatic r...
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...
Quote From the Twelve Caesars (2)
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...
Vanishing Youth
Petrarch is known as the father of Humanism and ushered in the era of the Italian Renaissance. This passage is from Petrarch’s Letter to Posterity. It kin...
The Knight of the Cart
I read my first medieval Arthurian romance. This one is by Chrétien de Troyes called The Knight of the Cart. It’s a poem (although, the translation I read...
The Two Parts of Wisdom
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But, while joined by many...
The Three Reichs
All of us know that Hitler’s Nazi Germany was called the Third Reich. But what were the first two Reichs? I was unclear about this, so I looked it up: The...
The Battle of Milvian Bridge
The institution of Christianity may well owe its existence to Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on October 28th, 312 A....