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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia,…
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To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of…
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Let us hope that the US (Democratic and Republican party) allows us, their European cultural and economical crown vassals, to liberate ourselves…
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I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side, And of all who assembled within those…
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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily…
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Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living…
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You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play…
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Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but…
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Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our…
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