It is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for,
and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy.
Thucydides (Book Four), The History of the Peloponnesian War
A commonplace book: an old-fashioned literary diary for recording interesting items from reading you've done. I use mine to record snippets from reading, conversation and life in general. (The early 2003 entries are from a period some years ago -- before the blog age -- when I tried an online commonplace book as a straight web page.)
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Ordinary men usually manage public affairs better than their more gifted
fellows. The latter are always wanting to appear wiser than the laws,
and to overrule every proposition brought forward, thinking that they
cannot show their wit in more important matters.
Thucydides (Book Three), The History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides (Book Three), The History of the Peloponnesian War
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