Seated August

Famous quotes containing the words seated and/or august:

    They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in the mean.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    —J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)