Quote #45
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.
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- Do what is right, though the world may perish.
- Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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- Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.