You, adults, elevate consumption as a goal, competition as the sole model. You corrupt our childhood and the years that will follow your departure. Neither mature nor responsible, you, adults, do not deserve that title. We are at war. Who is the enemy? Ourselves, this arrogant, carefree humanity.

Noam arrives in Greece in the 5th century BC, the cradle of democracy, theater, and philosophy. During his Hellenic life, he notably encounters Hippocrates, Pericles, and Socrates.

The Franco-Belgian author continues his monumental endeavor of narrating the history of humanity by exploring, this time, the fundamental aspects of ancient Greece, such as tragedy, the Olympic Games, and lessons in democracy, among others. His hero remains entangled in the problems inherent to his immortal condition and his love affairs, which, of course, are mortally finite. The footnotes remain as erudite as ever, without any immodest arrogance, but rather with a pedagogical intent. The interest in evoking the past lies in the resonance it finds in current events, such as Abbé Pierre and his statement: "A treacherous act does not make an individual a permanent traitor, just as a wise act does not make one a permanent sage." Moreover, I learned a slew of words from ancient jargon. It was truly difficult to select a single aphorism, as the entirety of the text deserves to be a title.

If you don't do everything you want, it's because you don't dare everything you can.