If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility! Either/Or
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. The Name of The Rose
If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things. Discourses
Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. Guns, Germs And Steel
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