Quotations

"You get to choose your damn sacrifice. You don’t get to choose not to make one. And if you don't choose your sacrifice, time makes it for you, and it takes everything." Jordan Peterson

What life is there, what pleasure without golden Aphrodite? 

Mimnermus, fragment 1, line 1 (tr. Douglas E. Gerber)


If, as Mimnermus holds, without love and play
there's no enjoyment, live for love and play.

Horace, Epistles 1.6.65-66 (tr. Colin Macleod)

I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”
Nancy Mitford