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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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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single…
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He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of…
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Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose…
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To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe…
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The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true…
— Pope Gregory I
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Just because men of renown, such as Edgar Cayce, Albert Einstein, Gandhi, or even Nikola Tesla, say something; doesn't that it is…
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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes…
— William Shakespeare
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