From The Dark Brain of Piranesi and Other Essays, by Marguerite Yourcenar
NOT FOR US
"It is not for us, so myopic when it comes to evaluating our own civilization, its errors, its chances of survival, and the opinion of it that the future will have, to be astonished that Romans of the third or fourth centuries were satisfied to the last with vague meditations on the vicissitudes of Fortune instead of interpreting more clearly the signs that their world was coming to an end."
From Faces of History in the Historia Augusta
No comments:
Post a Comment