“The terms of their mutual concessions were these: that Caesar should desert Cicero, Lepidus his brother Paulus, and Anthony, Lucius Caesar, his uncle by his mother’s side. Thus they let their anger and fury take from them the sense of humanity, and demonstrated that no beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus Plutarch’s Lives II
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say even more worrying than the WE scandal antics is the public sector insouciantly taking massive paid leaves and giving itself big raises during the private sector pandemic crisis.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the exceptionally rude rhetoric Chinese “diplomats” are aiming even at the United States suggests that this ugly regime thinks its time to strike has come.
In my latest National Post column I say the WE scandal must not put us to sleep with its characteristically Canadian dull murkiness.
“How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that happens in life.”
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
“For they [John Smith’s audience] did believe in the spirit of the devil which, as everyone knows, is in all of us.”
Walter Lippman The Public Philosophy
"That is the worst idea... since Abraham Lincoln said, ‘I'm sick of kicking around the house all day, let's go take in a show.’"
Edmund Blackadder in Black Adder Goes Forth [it turns out he actually called it “the worst idea in the history of entertainment” according to https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0526713/characters/nm0000100 - such are the perils of checking quotations].