It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Guns, Germs And Steel
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is. Never Give In!
All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well. Book IV
The reproach of a father is agreeable medicine, for it contains more that is useful than it contains of that which gives pain. Fragment
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