"The great pre-Christian civilizations of Greece and Rome had no religious wars and had a far healthier view of their …"

"It was in a recent conversation with an Indian religious guru that I was also pleased to discover I could adhere to h…"

"There is a remarkable tendency in our time: when we require some ideas to solve a problem, we establish an organizati…"

"Piccinino, already in his old age, could not make peace with the fact that with so many battles, with so many victori…"

"Piccinino in particular was jealous of Sforza; there could be no peace that this general had taken his place among th…"

"Political economy is perhaps the only science whose immediate object is the universal beneficence and prosperity of m…"

"This unfortunate monarch [Charles VI of France] enjoyed waging war and wandering among the tumult of arms; and althou…"

"[On Vittorio Alfieri] [...] this quivering impatience, which pushes him forward towards a goal he could not distingui…"

"The most licentious of all the poets of this libertine school was a Sovereign, a Jerusalem Knight, returned from the …"

"Universal competition and the effort to produce more and more at a lower price... is a dangerous system."