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- He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
- Jean Baptiste Montegut
- The character of a man is known from his conversations.
- Menander (342 BC - 292 BC)
- Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
- Jean Baptiste Rousseau
- History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- James A. Forude
- I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
- W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
- History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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