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“But the law is not an instrument to find out truth. It is there to create a fiction that will help us move past atrocious acts and face our future. It seems there is no mercy in this world, but a kind of haphazard justice: men pay for crimes, but not necessarily their own.”
― The Mirror & the Light
― The Mirror & the Light
“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”
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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
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“All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.”
― The Histories I-II
― The Histories I-II
“You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.”
― Wolf Hall
― Wolf Hall
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