Music is the pathway to the heart.
Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.
One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.
Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.