Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.