Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
C.S. Lewis
Archives For November 30, 1999
Greeks talk a whole pile of nonsense. Fuck’em.
Lucius Vorenus, Rome Season 2 Episode 10
Qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum (Let him who desires peace prepare for war)
Vegetius
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Fortis cadere, cedere non potest. (A brave man may fall, but he cannot yield.)
Latin Proverb
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. (It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one’s country.)
Horace
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Every counterfeit god a heart can choose- whether love, money, success, or power- has a powerful biblical narrative that explains how that particular kind of idolatry works itself out in our lives.
Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen E. Ambrose
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.
Tom Clancy
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