“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.”
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
That fatal drollery called a representative government.