Connor McKenna

“I will cover minor and major human settlements equally, because most of those which were important in the past have diminished in significance by now, and those which were great in my own time were small in times past. I will mention both equally because I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”
― Robin A.H. Waterfield, The Histories

“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”
― Matthew Arnold

“What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?”
― Homer, The Iliad

“...count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex