Sunday, 15 November 2015

Luxury is brittle

and easily smashed.
Carthage 146 BCE
Constantinople 1204
Versailles 1789
Petrograd 1917
Paris 1940, 2015

1 comment:

  1. Marcus BillsonNovember 15, 2015

    Sic transit gloria mundi…what the slave said in the ear of the Roman general as he rode in a Senate-declared Triumph through the streets of Rome while the crowd shouted its adulation.

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