Welcome to my gardens.
The singers haven't arrived yet, but in the meantime you can enjoy the music. It's quite different from what you would hear in Rome I believe. The garden has some parts that also seem quite strange to some eyes, but I like it this way. It was done with the help of my servant Ling who came with me from one of my travels to the Eastern lands. Most often you can find me here reading, drawing, taking care of my bonsai trees or just in the company of my friends and visitors. Here you can read some of my favorite quotes and see part of the quiz collection I have made as I *search for my true self*, whatever that means.
Awwww, isn't he adorable?
Keep on groovin'!!!
Quotes
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
-Orson Welles (The Third Man)
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet
-Plato
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
-J.R.R. Tolkien
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic
-Joseph Stalin
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
Nemo me impune lacessit
- Motto of the Crown of Scotland & of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
If peace cannot be be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace
- Lord John Russell
It is not titles that honour men, but men that honour titles
- Niccolo Machiavelli, Discorsi, XXXVIII (1531)
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress
- Napoleon I, Political Aphorisms (1848)
It is right to be taught, even by an enemy
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV
War is the trade of Kings
- John Dryden, King Arthur, II, ii (1691)
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background music and some images courtesy of Diamondeve's Orient Express
