“The annals of former generations are lessons to the living: a man may look back upon the fortunes of his predecessors and be admonished; and contemplate the history of past ages and be purged of folly.”

—Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

Translated by N. J. Dawood

“Ah, he wanders forth again; We cannot keep him; now, as then, There’s a secret in his breast Which will never let him rest.”

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson Idylls of the King