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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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The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed…
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On any occasion when one can discover the cause of events, one should not resort to the gods.
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A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
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That historians should give their own country a break, I grant you; but not so as to state things contrary to fact.…
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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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I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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To be much for God, we must be much with God. Jesus, that lone figure in the wilderness, knew strong crying, along…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
— Alan Jay Lerner
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What are you doing?" "Kneeling before a goddess." "I'm not a goddess." "You are. A goddess, a princess, a queen. As a…
— Colleen Houck
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Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?
— Alexander Pope
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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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no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a…
— Dave Barry
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The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do.…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well…
— Enid Blyton
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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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