“If people are lucky enough to have family they should cultivate it. --A Prologue to Love”
― A Prologue to Love
― A Prologue to Love
“Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism.”
― Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty
― Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty
“God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.”
― Dear and Glorious Physician
― Dear and Glorious Physician
“Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.”
― Captains and the Kings
― Captains and the Kings
“Don’t chew on the bad things that happen to you, dear. Try to see the beauty in every cruelty. It sets you free. Forgive hurt if you want to heal a broken heart. Try to be grateful for every setback or tragedy, because by living through them, you become stronger.”
― The Last Green Valley
― The Last Green Valley
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