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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness.
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Linnaeus
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Caligula
Would that the Roman people had a single neck to cut off their head.
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Baltasar Gracian
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.
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Benjamin Disraeli
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
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Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.
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Felix Frankfurter
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
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Francis Bacon
I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement)
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Henry Ford
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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