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“If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”
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“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”
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“In the dark, all cats are black.”
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“There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.”
― Silence: Lectures and Writings
― Silence: Lectures and Writings
“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”
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Ben’s 2024 Year in Books
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