“All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.”
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A good historian is timeless although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.