If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.