"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Vauvenargues (1715-1747), Reflections and Maxims, no. 102 (tr. F.G. Stevens):
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind, as from the weather.
Il faut tout attendre et tout craindre du temps et des hommes.