I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay
All things are subject to decay and change.
If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.
In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics. . . For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.
When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because of the color of your skin.
The best of a bad bargain.
I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.
Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.