The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

You are one of the forces of nature.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.