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“The chief faculty of language has been the ability to make better excuses for our fighting instinct.”
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“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
“a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.”
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“But that brief agony was, like all bodily experiences, indescribable, and remains the secret of him who has lived through it, whether he would tell it or no.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“That in the course of justice none of us
Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.”
― The Merchant of Venice
Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.”
― The Merchant of Venice
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