Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. Guns, Germs And Steel
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. The Karamazov Brothers
Nothing is more uncommon than a very large or a very small man; and this applies generally to all extremes, whether of great and small, or swift and slow, or fair and foul, or black and white; and whether the instances you select be man or dogs or anything else, few are the extremes,but many are in the mean between them. The Trials Of Socrates
It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself. Book VII
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