Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Category Archive: November 30
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Without money nothing gets done.
So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.
An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.
That is one good thing about this world… there are always sure to be more springs.
Sertorius was far from being strong enough to renew the gigantic enterprise of Hannibal. He was lost if he left Spain, where all his successes were bound up with the peculiarities of the country and the people; and even there, he was more and more compelled to renounce the offensive.
Marcus Crassus cannot, any more than Pompeius, be reckoned among the unconditional adherents of the oligarchy.