It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
nothing is more restful than conformity.
Dogs are a habit, I think.
History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called 'eternal.' What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.