A Cat Has A Reputation To Protect.

Most Of Us Spend Too Much Time On The Last Twenty-four Hours And Too Little On The Last Six Thousand Years.

Never Mind Your Happiness; Do Your Duty.

Tolerance Grows Only When Faith Loses Certainty; Certainty Is Murderous.

Moral Codes Adjust Themselves To Environmental Conditions.

So I Should Say That Civilizations Begin With Religion And Stoicism: They End With Scepticism And Unbelief, And The Undisciplined Pursuit Of Individual Pleasure. A Civilization Is Born Stoic And Dies Epicurean.