It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed; otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.

The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.