Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms his strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of judgment.
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