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No man believes rulers when they allege conspiracy, unless the conspiracy succeeds.
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It is refreshing to find a philosopher who is wise enough to be happy.
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...for some centuries yet he will continue to enjoy the lifeless immortality of those writers whom all men praise and no one reads.
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The chief charm of the past is that we know we need not live it again.
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A man's quota of energy seldom allows him to be great in both his life and his seed.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.
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Civilized comfort attracts barbarian conquest.
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Feudal war differed from both ancient and modern war in greater frequency and less mortality and cost.
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It is not always a boon that our enemies should write a book.
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Men were no better in the Age of Faith than in our age of doubt, and in all ages law and morality have barely succeeded in maintaining social order against the innate individualism of men never intended by nature to be law-abiding citizens.
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We shall never do justice to the Middle Ages until we see the Italian Renaissance not as their repudiation but as their fulfillment.
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The isles of science and philosophy are everywhere washed by mystic seas. Intellect narrows hope, and only the fortunate can bear it gladly.
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Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life.
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Mohammed, like Moses, used religion as a means to hygiene as well as to morality, on the general principle that the rational can secure popular acceptance only in the form of the mystical.
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation.
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In communities with poor communication and limited schooling some form of oligarchy is inevitable.
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Even in the age of the despots there were Romans of the old type, men of ability and integrity, conscientious administrators who made the Empire prosper under the lords of misrule and opened a way for monarchy's golden age.
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Plato felt, like Voltaire, that monarchy has this advantage over democracy, that in a monarchy the reformer has only to convince one man.
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Men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.
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Read good books many times, rather than many books; travel slowly, and not too much.
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