Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century...First of all, what style should I employ?

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.