Antonio:
I came across these lines from a very old book of the Aeneid by Virgil. It sums up
much of what goes on today. People attack and attack and attack, but men and
women with true character stand fast while the rest fall away.
Uni odisque viro telisque frequentibus instant.
Ille velut rupes vastum quae prodit in aequor,
Obvia ventorum furus, expostaque ponto,
Vim cunctam, atque minas ferfet coelique marisque,
Ipsa immota manens.
They attack this one man with their hate and their shower of weapons.
But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which,
exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures
all the violence and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Virgil, Aeneid
A great thought from a great man at a time when greatness is personified
by the truly small-minded.
Giovanni
