Captures the reader with true magic.

History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

Captures the reader with true magic.

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.