Alone with my wine and my misery, I was convinced that life was composed of a string of “if only’s” leading from one self-inflicted bungle to the next until at some point, one’s final iteration of the excuse became one’s final utterance, and one expired.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: life-lessons life-philosophy non-inspiration
The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: past future present the-past present-moment
You Romans wash too much to be true men. Washing is for women, to clean our breeches and our vests. And even they barely let their toes touch the stream! Hah!
Andrew LevkoffOne can get past just about anything, given enough time, even when one shouldn’t.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: life-lessons
Children—their untroubled, idyllic vision of the future is almost always shattered. Sooner or later they learn what all youth must—that life is the cruel fate that awaits them while they make plans for a tomorrow that will never be.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: future children fate future-plans
Oh, I take your meaning now, Marcus,” he said, as if comprehension had just dawned. “You would have me harken back to a time when the outcome of a contest was not known until after the voting. How nostalgic.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: politics corruption political-corruption
Ignorance is an underrated virtue, my lord.
Andrew LevkoffSince my arrival in Rome, I have had many opportunities to wonder if compassion’s opposite is cruelty, or to reflect whether or not indifference would serve as a better black to its white.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: compassion indifference rome cruelty
He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: love memory dying life-and-death love-and-loss love-and-dying love-and-memory love-and-remembrance
We would soon be on our way to war, where mercy is unwise and kindness has no place.
Andrew LevkoffStichwörter: kindness war mercy
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