"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance……" — Lytton Strachey
"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization."
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28 Quotes by Lytton Strachey
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a…
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If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
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Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is…
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with…
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
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The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely…
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in…
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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure…
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But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet…
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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