"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero Topic(s): History Tags: attempt More From Marcus Tullius Cicero "Brevity is a great charm of eloquence." "The best interpreter of the law is custom." "The good of the people is the greatest law." More In History "The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags."― James Buchan "I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term."― Robert Caro "I’ve become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that… basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so."― Mayim Bialik