Love of country is what I do not feel when I am wronged, but what I felt
when secure in my rights as a citizen.... the true lover of his country
is not he who consents to lose it unjustly rather than attack it, but
he who longs for it so much that he will go all lengths to recover it.
Alcibiades, as quoted by Thucydides, (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.)
Saturday, January 23, 2016
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