A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Every great change is simple.
The only history that matters is the history we know.
A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.