No Sane man will dance.
To be unacquainted with what has passed in the world, before we came into it ourselves, is to be always children. For what is the age of a single mortal, unless it is connected, by the aid of History, with the times of our ancestors?
If we lose affection and kindliness from our life we've lost all that gives it charm.
So near is falsehood to the truth, that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.