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To Seneca and his fellow adherents of stoic philosophy, if a person could develop peace within themselves - if they could achieve apatheia, as they called it-then the whole world could be at war, and they could still think well, work well, and be well. "You may be sure that you are at peace with yourself, "Seneca wrote, "when no noise reaches you, when no word shakes you out of yourself, whether it be flattery or....

a threat, or merely an empty sound buzzing about you with unmeaning sin." In this state, nothing could touch them (not even a deranged emperor), no emotion could disturb them, no threat could interrupt them, and every beat of the present moment would be theirs for living

This is a book of ideas. Someone thought the idea and put it into words on paper. That became a seed, and every time someone reads those words, the seed is planted in their mind, too, and it grows and spreads and assume that tiny seed of an idea becomes belief, and belief becomes a plan, and those plans begin to change the world.

How can we know who we are if we do not know who we were?

How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that? You ban there books.

To be without learning is to be without eyes. - Lithuanian proverb

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull never in light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with colour and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?