History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
Will DurantA history of civilization shares the presumptuousness of every philosophical enterprise: it offers the ridiculous spectacle of a fragment expounding the whole. Like philosophy, such a venture has no rational excuse, and is at best but a brave stupidity; but let us hope that, like philosophy, it will always lure some rash spirits into its fatal depths.
Will DurantIt is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.
Will Durant