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Those of you who aren't reading this series because you don't like Vox's political views, I get it! I really do! But if you are skipping out on this series because you don't like the guy, you are robbing yourself of reading one of the greatest epic f
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“But it will be harder for you if you remember. Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss.”
― Between Two Fires
― Between Two Fires
“There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions-that is, to name them and”
― The Art of Rhetoric
― The Art of Rhetoric
“Everything that occurs in the world, in every epoch, has something that corresponds to it in ancient times.”
― The Discourses
― The Discourses
“For a Monarchy readily becomes a Tyranny, an Aristocracy an Oligarchy, while a Democracy tends to degenerate into Anarchy. So that if the founder of a State should establish any one of these three forms of Government, he establishes it for a short time only, since no precaution he may take can prevent it from sliding into its contrary, by reason of the close resemblance which, in this case, the virtue bears to the vice.”
― Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
― Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius
“A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts; but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the “multiplier effect,” it unfortunately carries more conviction.”
― Anatomy of the State
― Anatomy of the State
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