Read this book to: See "The Rockville Variations" of El Greco's Fabula and Michaelangelo's Last Judgment. Understand mysterious Indian castes and Jewish secret societies. Learn about those famous and naughty 17th century French salons. Get some pretty good information about Christian relics. What some well-known people said:
"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
--Denis Diderot
"There are only two kinds of money in the world: your money and my money."
--Milton Friedman
"There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and laziness."
--Franz Kafka
"On one issue at least men and women agree: They both distrust women."
--H. L. Mencken.
"The faults we first see in others are the faults that are our own."
--Honore de Balzac
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."
--Bertrand Russell.