Tao Te Ching

“Here the greatest historian of all time tells the story not of dying Rome alone, but of that infancy of northern Europe we know as the Middle Ages, the rise of the Papacy, the conversion of Constantine and the coronation of Charlemagne, the bloody tale of Muhammed and his generals... life is not so important that we may not spare the unhurried calm needed to drink in the wisdom of his comments and the music of his periods.”

— Will Durant 1885 – 1981 CE via Shan Dao
Philosophy apostle and popularizer of history's lessons
from Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time, 1968