There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

All office workers are afraid of being late for work.

Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon ever lived?

There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.

It is a law of life that human beings, even the geniuses among them, do not pride themselves on their actual achievements but thatthey want to impress others, want to be admired and respected because of things of much lower import and value.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What we call "history" by no means represents the sum total of all significant deeds.... World historyonly comprises that tiny lighted sector which chanced to be placed in the spotlight by poetic or scholarly depictions.