“ And barbarians were inventors not only of philosophy, but almost of every art. The Egyptians were the first to introduce astrology among men. Similarly also the Chaldeans. The Egyptians first showed h… Clement of Alexandria
“ One enjoys the good things more to the extent that one goes to them after having labored in advance, for labors are a sauce for good things Xenphon Ephesius
“ The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem t… Johann Joachim Becher
“ Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different whic… Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“ A unified Iran is constituted not only politically but also affectively. Liberty and constitutional rule bring "Affection among us." The affective sentiment- that of bonding among differing brothers-p… Afsaneh Najmabadi
“ Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war. Above all, we… Alexander the Great
“ Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks Soroosh Shahrivar
“ Even women deeply committed to the emancipatory promises of modernity were alarmed by the "inappropriateness" of unrelated men and omen socializing in the streets. In the women's press, articles exhor… Afsaneh Najmabadi
“ It is perhaps because of the Iranian concept of the home and garden (and not the city or town it is in) as the defining center of life that Iranians find living in a society with such stringent rules… Hooman Majd
