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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
History, a distillation of rumor.
History, a distillation of rumor.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and read more
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.