"Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities."

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Source : "De Re Rustica". Book by Marcus Terentius Varro (Act III, Scene 1), 37 BC.

Marcus Terentius Varro

#Art Quotes #Cities Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.”
“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.”
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”
“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”
“There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.”

Source : "Peter Welch rises as liberal voice of reason". www.politico.com.
“I would love to live in India or in the South of France, but Roger Vivier doesn't have offices yet in New Delhi or Jaipur.”
“I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.”
“A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.”

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