Quotes 9-17-2013 : words and dirt

“The person lacking self-restraint is like a city that votes for all that it ought to vote for and has serious laws, yet it makes use of none of them.”

––Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins, Book 7, Chapter 10

“History is a foreign country, and the old are unwilling emigrants, tired out by the constant travel.”