"This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer."
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"The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth."
"Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself."
"If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends."
"My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically."