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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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Let go of your worries and fears, of your rage and jealousy, of your need to always be right and control others.…
— Melchor Lim
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In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and…
— Karl Popper
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I admire most of all The Renaissance Man, and if it can be said without pretentiousness, I like to think of myself…
— Lucius Beebe
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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…
— Polybius
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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.
— Aleksandar Hemon
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The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus…
— Raymond Chandler
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There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.
— Glenway Wescott
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