Quotes on history

“For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.”

Topics: anymore, better, gainful

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

Topics: cicero, friends, himself

“Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”

Topics: cicero, crowning, history

“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.”

Topics: before, beverly, born

“The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honor.”

Topics: almost, anything, chiefly

“The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.”

Topics: beasts, cicero, dislike

“There exists a law, inborn of our hearts by natural intuition, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”

Topics: exists, hearts, history

“I have a real problem with heights.”

Topics: heights, history, problem

“You’re just a kid, you don’t have the faintest idea what you’re talkin’ about.”

Topics: about, faintest, history

“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”

Topics: anybody, history, ideas

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