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26 quotes
genus of plants
“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.”
"Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty."
on Truth
"If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise."
on Power
"Greater things are believed of those who are absent."
"When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad."
on Wisdom
"It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured."
on Philosophy
"The worst hatred is that of relatives."
on Relationships
"It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt."
"Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful."
"A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man."
"Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin."
"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
"Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards."
on Courage
"Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor."
on Perception
"Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity."
"A bad peace is even worse than war."
on War
"Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions."
"Where they make a desert they call it peace."
"A bad peace is worse than war."
"The more corrupt the state the more laws."
"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."
