Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every man is his own chief enemy.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Man is capable of every great heroism; it was man who found a means of conquering the formidable obstacles of his environment, establishing himself lord of the earth, and laying the foundations of civilization.
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Classics are constantly being re-imagined and transformed, and the originals are none the worse for it; they endure.
Man has no greater enemy than himself.
No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.