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arcana imperii :: the book of j

19.6.04

a day of introspection

«it is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth ... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.» ~francis bacon, essays, of truth, 1625.