Thucydides Sicilian Expedition Quotes & Sayings

Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness, can any business seem more fitted to heighten it than that of continually handling these dead letters and assorting them for the flames? For by the cart-load they are annually burned. Sometimes from out the folded paper the pale clerk takes a ring: - the finger it was meant for, perhaps, moulders in the grave; a bank-note sent in swiftest charity: - he whom it would relieve, nor eats nor hungers any more; pardon for those who died despairing; hope for those who died unhoping; good tidings for those who died stifled by unrelieved calamities. On errands of life, these letters speed to death. 250
Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity! — Herman Melville

A criminal never knew any freedom at all.
September 2016
Petra Hermans
Amen
God
Babaji — Petra Hermans

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger — William Shakespeare

Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century. — Kenneth Waltz

I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That's my magic elixir, so to speak. — Terry Crews

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey. — Oliver Goldsmith