I will not steal a victory...The end and perfection of our victories is to
avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.
-- Alexander III (The Great) (356-323 BCE)
avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue.
-- Alexander III (The Great) (356-323 BCE)
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- There is perhaps no surer mark of folly,
than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those... - Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc... - We gladly feast on those who would subdue us-
not just pretty words... - Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Dost sometimes counsel take-
and sometimes tea. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) ... - Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and
chains;
those who steal from the public treasure go dressed... - I put it to you all. I think we shall end up with a fine crew.
if we avoid temptation -- Picard, "The Naked Now"... - To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest
skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest... - Most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Criticism,... - Wisdom consists of knowing when to avoid
perfection...
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- Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them,
only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the... - The Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) "The Bread... - Evil is not inherent in nature -- it is learned.
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Ashley Montagu (1905- ... - If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game.
Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously... - The good Lord gave me my money. -- J.D. Rockefeller,
Sr. (1839...
