“We trained hard—but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”
Quotes by Petronius Arbiter
“Le soleil brille pour tout le monde, la lune et son cortège d'étoiles sans nombre guident vers leur nourriture même les bêtes féroces, et peut-on trouver plus de beauté qu'aux eaux jaillissantes, où chacun pourtant puise à sa guise ?”
“No man on earth may look on forbidden things as you have done and escape punishment. Especially here, a land so infested with divinity that one might meet a god more easily than a man.”
“Just as in dicing, Fortune smiles or lowers; When good luck beckons, then your friend his gleeful service gives But basely flies when ruin o'er you towers.”
“Es gibt nichts Verfehlteres als die unsinnige Voreingenommenheit der Menschen und nichts Dümmeres als gleisnerische Sittenstrenge.”
“utres inflati ambulamus. minoris quam muscae sumus, muscae tamen aliquam uirtutem habent, nos non pluris sumus quam bullae.”
Petronius ArbiterGaius Petronius Arbiter was a prominent Roman courtier and literary figure during the reign of Emperor Nero. He is best known as the author of the 'Satyricon,' a satirical novel that offers a vivid an...