In a country like France so ancient their history is full of outstanding people so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all the one in fact that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

A new breeze is blowing and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn for in man's heart if not in fact the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient lifeless tree.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.