Paul Einzig quotes

Paul Einzig quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Even during the period when Rome lost much of her ancient prestige, an Indian traveler observed that trade all over the world was operated with the aid of Roman gold coins which were accepted and admired everywhere.”
-- Paul Einzig

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“Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.”
“I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.”
“I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.”
“Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers, / Floats in the mist, a little cloud at tether.”
“If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.”
“Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.”
“In my case dust has become Gold”
“A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.”
“great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.”
“Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.”

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