❝ “Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.” 2418 Edmund Burke
❝ “We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.” 2418 Edmund Burke
❝ “Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.” 2418 Edmund Burke
❝ “Of all the creatures that breathe and move across the earth, there is nothing feebler than man.” 2418 Homer
❝ “I should rather labor as another’s serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.” 2418 Homer
❝ “Among all men on Earth, bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the Muse has taught them songs, and loves the race of bards.” 2418 Homer