Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.