Where pride is insistent enough, memory prefers to give way. Man and His Symbols
Everyone is ruled by the Logos, which is common to all; yet, though the Logos is universal, the majority of men live as if they had an identity peculiar to themselves. Fragments
“Antioch was the last of the great cities of Arab Asia to have fallen under the domination of the Seljuk Turks: in 1084 it was still a dependency of Constantinople. Thirteen years later, when the Frankish knights laid siege to the town, Yaghi-SiyÁn was naturally convinced that this was part of an attempt” The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." The Analects of Confucius
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