A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest;
BENJAMIN DISRAELIThere is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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Finality is not the language of politics.
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
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You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
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The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments’ plans.
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A precedent embalms a principle.
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The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
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