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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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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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Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that…
— Christine de Pizan
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But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything…
— Faith Hunter
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At this time I choseas friends two little girls of my own age; but how shallow are the hearts of creatures! Oneof…
— Therese of Lisieux
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If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of…
— Denise Levertov
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Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things…
— Florence Nightingale
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To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern…
— Walter Pater
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While husbands and lovers in the stories [of the 14th century] are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are…
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