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• History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
• The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
• I have read somewhere or other,-in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,-that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
• It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One…
• Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to…
• As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead…
• I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties…
• To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken…
• Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

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