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“For in order to command well, we should know how to submit; and he who submits with a good grace will some time become worthy of commanding.”
On The Laws • Marcus Tullius Cicero“A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world”
Northanger Abbey • Jane Austen““Fortune . . . shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.””
The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli“Let us... be careful of admitting into our souls the notion that there is no truth or health or soundness in any arguments at all; but let us rather say that there is as yet no health in us, and that we must quit ourselves like men and do our best to gain health—you and all other men with a view to the whole of your future life, and I myself with a view to death.”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.”
Thyestes • Lucius Annaeus Seneca