“Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.”
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War kills men, and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.