The feeling of self-assurance derived from physical achievement always transfers itself to the mental sphere. Beware of Pity
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric. Seagull
Why, within Eurasia, were European societies, rather than those of the Fertile Crescent or China or India, the ones that colonized America and Australia, took the lead in technology, and became politically and economically dominant in the modern world? Guns, Germs And Steel
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it. Book VII
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