History is not a bad thing. It just reminds us what to do and what not to do in the future.

Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.

Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.

But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.

Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language.

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.