The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Often your face is your autobiography

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.