Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.