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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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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is…
— Abu Bakr
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors…
— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For…
— David Hume
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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can…
— Maria Edgeworth
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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The income tax is bad because it was conceived in class hatred, is an instrument of vengeance and plays right into the…
— T. Coleman Andrews
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The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
— John Mason Brown
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