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“For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
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“For war is decided not by numbers of men nor their bodily size, but by the valor that is in the soul. Let the strongest motive that men have, then, enter your minds, namely pride in past achievement.”
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“How could anyone find words to describe Justinian’s character?”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“As things went from bad to worse all men came to learn by experience that man's innate wickedness knows no limit: when it feeds on the knowledge of the past, and when the licence which impunity bestows encourages it to victimise all whom it encounters, it seems to swell inevitably to such proportions that it is not even possible for the minds of the sufferers to grasp its immensity.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
