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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
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From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the…
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If history is deprived of the Truth, we are left with nothing but an idle, unprofitable tale.
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The particular aspect of history which both attracts and benefits its readers is the examination of causes and the capacity, which is…
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Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with…
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Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
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For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is…
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In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the…
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
— Samuel Beckett
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All who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission…
— Pope Urban II
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I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him…
— Auguste Rodin
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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards,…
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh,…
— Samuel Beckett
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Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
— William Shakespeare
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But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for…
— Alexander Hamilton
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