"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
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"The highest condition of art is artlessness."
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"Discontent is the seed of ethics."
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"The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it."
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"The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith."
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"Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance."
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"History is past politics, and politics is present history."
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"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."
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"History is the discovering of the principles of human nature."
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"We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again."
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"Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."
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"Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it."
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"The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it."
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"Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world."
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"We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?"
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"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."
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"History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."
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"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."
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