No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.
Civilizaton is the interval between Ice Ages.
Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.