Fire Service

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or service:

“The divinity in man is the true vestal fire of the temple which is never permitted to go out, but burns as steadily and with as pure a flame on the obscure provincial altar as in Numa’s temple at Rome.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)