One more thing



And one more thing:

Quisquis huc accedes
Quod tibi horrendum videtur
Mihi amoenum est
Si dilectat maneas
Si taedat abeas
Utrumque gratum

You who come here
Whoever you are
What may seem horrible to you
Is fine for me
If you like it stay
If it bores you go
I couldn’t care less.

(From the inscription that appears in Latin on a marble plaque at the entrance to Cardinal Chigi’s 17th century Villa Cetinale, at Sovicelli in Tuscany, discovered and translated by John Julius Norwich in “Still More Christmas Crackers – 1990-1999,” [Viking, Penguin Group UK]).




Thursday, February 16, 2012

Quote of the Day



"Nothing in all the known world of politics is so intractable as a band of zealots, conscious that they are in the minority, yet armed by accident with the powers of a majority."
 -- Samuel Morley, 1809-1886, English member of parliament, liberal, abolitionist, wealthy philanthropist.






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