"For it cannot be denied that all over the world and in all ages there are beings who are perceived to be extraordinary, charming, and appealing, and whom many honor as benevolent spirits, because they make one think of a more beautiful, a freer, a more winged life than the one we lead."
~Hermann Hesse
IMPERIVM
“I tried to be some ten minutes in advance of the truth. And I found that I was eighteen hundred years behind it.”
~G.K. Chesterton
IMPERIVM
00:00 Sonata No. 1
in D minor
07:21 Sonata No. 2
in E minor
14:25 Sonata No. 3
in F minor
IMPERIVM
"For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth."
J. R. R. Tolkien
2 Timothy 1:7
"For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline."
IMPERIVM
"The past refuses to be dismissed, for it is the voice of all human wisdom.”
~Russell Kirk
IMPERIVM
"I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting."
Mark Twain
"First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.”
~Ovid
IMPERIVM
"Only those who secretly propagate the admiration of beauty conspire effectively against today’s world.”
~Nicolás Gómez Dávila
IMPERIVM
"Patience is power.
Patience is not an absence of action;
rather it is "timing"
it waits on the right time to act,
for the right principles
and in the right way."
~Fulton J. Sheen
IMPERIVM
"Don’t let anything deter you: other people’s misbehavior, your own misperceptions, what people will say, or the feelings of the body that covers you."
~Marcus Aurelius
IMPERIVM