To live fully is to be engaged in the passions of one's times.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
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Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
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The law embodies the story of a nations development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
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Eloquence may set fire to reason.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at the peril of being judged not to have lived.
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