“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
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“Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.”
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“while the earth, which in reality is only an imperceptible point in nature, appears to our fond imaginations as something so grand and noble. He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom of clay. This true image seemed to annihilate his misfortunes, by making him sensible of the nothingness of his own being”
― Zadig et autres contes
― Zadig et autres contes
“A man who has the knowledge but lacks the power clearly to express it is no better off than if he never had any ideas at all.”
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
― The History of the Peloponnesian War
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