Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.