King Lars Porsena (also spelled Porsenna) was the Etruscan monarch of Clusium (modern Chusi, Tuscany) during the transitional period in which Rome changed its...
Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
The Buddha (This quote recorded in the 3rd century BCE)
"There is no fever for the person
who has completed the journey--
free from sorrow,
freed in every...
Lucan (c. 39-65)
"Where does the miserable fate
of our empire not find civil war?"
From Lucan’s Civil War (Book 10, approximately between lines 410-433), translated...
The Buddha
"Not abusing, not harming,
restraint in line with the discipline,
moderation in eating and seclusion in dwelling,
exertion in meditation as well—
this is the teaching of...
The Buddha (6th-5th century BCE)
"Those who hold the worthless to be of value,
and see in the valuable the worthless,
do not attain the valuable,
pasturing, as...
