"Not to have knowledge of what happened..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”

“Whatever you do, do with all your might.”

“To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool.”

“Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood.”

“Before Cliff (Richard) and The Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.”

“Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.”

“Under every deep a lower deep opens.”

“Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.”

“In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.”