The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake. Ulysses
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise. Don Quixote
Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection. Book I
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