Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
BARBARA TUCHMANRome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous, lecherous, shameless, although not necessarily all of these at once.
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Completeness is rare in history.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.
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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
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Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
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Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.
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No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
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The Hundred Years’ War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
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I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
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Books are humanity in print.
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For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
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