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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.
— Eugene Delacroix
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Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.
— Edward Gibbon
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The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live…
— Stendhal
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,
— John Rawls
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Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must…
— John Rawls
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Get money first; virtue comes after.
— Horace
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Aristotle deemed courage to be the first virtue, because it makes all the other possible.
— Jonathan V. Last
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
— Aristotle
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
— Denis Diderot
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I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even…
— Cato the Elder
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
— Anatole France
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