History Is Mostly Guessing; The Rest Is

A History Of Civilization Shares The Presumptuousness Of Every Philosophical Enterprise: It Offers The Ridiculous Spectacle Of A Fragment Expounding The Whole. Like Philosophy, Such A Venture Has No Rational Excuse, And Is At Best But A Brave Stupidity; But Let Us Hope That, Like Philosophy, It Will Always Lure Some Rash Spirits Into Its Fatal Depths.

Even When Repressed, Inequality Grows; Only The Man Who Is Below The Average In Economic Ability Desires Equality; Those Who Are Conscious Of Superior Ability Desire Freedom, And In The End Superior Ability Has Its Way.

An Emperor Knows How To Govern When Poets Are Free To Make Verses, People To Act Plays, Historians To Tell The Truth, Ministers To Give Advice, The Poor To Grumble At Taxes, Students To Learn Lessons Aloud, Workmen To Praise Their Skill And Seek Work, People To Speak Of Anything, And Old Men To Find Fault With Everything.

Cultivate Your Garden… Do Not Depend Upon Teachers To Educate You … Follow Your Own Bent, Pursue Your Curiosity Bravely, Express Yourself, Make Your Own Harmony… In The End, Education, Like Happiness, Is Individual, And Must Come To Us From Life And From Ourselves. There Is No Way; Each Pilgrim Must Make His Own Path. "happiness," Said Chamfort, "is Not Easily Won; It Is Hard To Find It In Ourselves, And Impossible To Find It Elsewhere.

The Past Is Not Dead. Indeed, It Is Often Not Even Past.