Eric Scheske

“I, the Captain of a Legion of Rome, serving in the desert of Libya, have learnt and pondered this truth: 'There are in life but two things to be sought, Love and Power, and no one has both.'”

"Youth is a charming thing; it sets off a life's beginning, crowned with flowers, like the Athenian fleet on its way to conquer Sicily." Chateaubriand

The Modern Vomitorium Few practices from ancient Rome leave a bad taste in the mouth like the vomitorium. During Roman banquets, participants would stuff themselves with food until they couldn't eat any more, then go to the vomitorium where they would tickle their throats with a feather. They

Reality is simultaneously knowable and unfathomable. Josef Pieper

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that frugality is more romantic than extravagance. It is. The penny-pinched man looking for a gift for his beloved, he must think and be creative. And when he spends on his beloved, he feels it, like the old woman felt her two mites go

"As the eyes of bats are dazzled by sunlight, so it is with human intelligence when face to face with what is by nature most obvious." Aristotle "Though the eyes of the bat do not avail to behold the sun, it is seen by the eye of

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Quite odd, all this pornography in America, a country with a remarkably high percentage of people who identify themselves as Christians. Kinda reminds me of Walker Percy's reference in The Moviegoer to the "cult of the naughty nice": Where "everyone is nicer than Christians and

Michigan in March Of all the Meadian gifts from Zeus, the sudden surprise of nature has always been my favorite. A wise man once said that those who set out to appreciate nature are the ones most likely to miss it. The converse is also true: Those who set out

The pagan gods don't drink mead with mortals for a reason, and it's not snobbery. It comes from the desire to hang out with their peers–with those who know they are merely imperfect gods and can jokingly point out their flaws.