“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
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“Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
― Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
― Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867
“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
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“Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)”
― The Odes of Horace
― The Odes of Horace
“Absolute power corrupts absolutely”
― Essays on Freedom and Power
― Essays on Freedom and Power
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