06-06-2008, 05:00 AM
Quote:This thread will not be complete until you post the actual quote in question.The Commentaries are splendid: bare, straight and handsome, stripped of rhetorical ornament like an athlete of his clothes. He intended to provide material for others to use in the writing of history; but though he may have gratified some fools who will want to use their curling-irons on it, he has frightened off all the men of sense from putting pen to paper. For there is nothing in a history more attractive than clean and lucid brevity.
