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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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“Natura deficit, fortuna mutatur, deus omnia cernit. La naturaleza nos traiciona, la fortuna cambia, un dios mira las cosas desde lo alto.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“That mysterious play which extends from love of a body to a love of an entire person has seemed to me noble enough to consecrate to it one part of my life.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
“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
“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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