Socrates used to call popular beliefs “the monsters under the bed”–only useful for frightening children with.
–Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.180 c. AD
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A Touch of Classical Wisdom II
The one who buggers a fire burns his penis.
-Found on the walls of a basilica in Pompeii.
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
A Touch of Classical Wisdom
Nevertheless, let us take this business seriously and spare no pains; success is never automatic in this world–nothing is achieved without trying.
-Said by Mardonius, a Persian military commander, at a conference to Xerxes, urging the King of Persia to war with Greece. c. 5th century BC.
SPOILER ALERT: They lose.
The Histories
by Hero “The Father of History” dotus.
Histastrophe! 