Palace

Domus Augustana of Palatine Hill in Rome, the etymon of "palace"

A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary.

Quotes

• I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,
  Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,
  But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,
  Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.
  Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,
  The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Roman Elegies (1789), Elegy 1.

• When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)

• Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.
  • Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace.
  • Horace, Carmina, II. 10. 5.

• Israel has forgotten their Maker and built palaces.
  • Hosea 8:14

• Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.
  • Lucy Parsons, as reported in Chicago Tribune (1885), as quoted in "What’s Missing From Black History Month" by Jon Hochshartner in The Red Phoenix (10 February 2012)

• Ignoramuses are numerous in the palace.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection VIII at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• A palace will fall of its own accord.
  • Sumerian proverb, Collection XI at The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• The palace is like a mighty river: its middle is goring bulls; what flows in is never enough to fill it, and what flows out can never be stopped.
  • Šuruppak, Instructions of Shuruppak (3rd millennium BCE). [1]

• You may say you attained some stage in your practice. But that is just a trivial event in your long life. It is like saying the ocean is round, or like a jewel, or palace. For a hungry ghost the ocean is a pool of blood; for a dragon the ocean is a palace; for a fish it is his house; for a human being it is water. There must be various understandings. When the ocean is a palace, it is a palace. You cannot say it is not a palace. For a dragon it is actually a palace. If you laugh at a fish who says it is a palace, Buddha will laugh at you who say it is two o'clock, three o'clock. It is the same thing.
  • Shunryu Suzuki, "Three Lecture Excerpts from Shunryu Suzuki Roshi" in Berkeley Zen Center Newsletter (May 2000)

See also

• Castle
• Church
• Government
• House
• King
• Monarchy
• Nobility
• Temple
• Wealth