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The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Topic: Ability
Source: None
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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Style is the image of character.
Topic: Appearance
Source: None
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Topic: Beauty
Source: None
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The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
Topic: Constitution
Source: None
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Topic: Fanatics
Source: None
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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the
proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a
common grave.
Topic: Fortune
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXXI)
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Gratitude is expensive.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little
more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.
Topic: History
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. III), (1776)
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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Topic: History
Source: None
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Topic: Infatuation
Source: None
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
Topic: Lonliness
Source: None
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest
navigators.
Topic: Navigation
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. LXVIII)
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
Topic: Negativity
Source: None
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
Topic: Philanthropy
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. XLIX)
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...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not
exchange for the treasures of India.
Topic: Reading
Source: Memoirs
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Revenge is profitable.
Topic: Revenge
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ch. XI)
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The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and
dissipation without pleasure.
Topic: Society
Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 116)
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
Topic: Solitude
Source: Memoirs (vol. I, p. 117)
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To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues.
Topic: Vices
Source: None
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Amiable weakness of human nature.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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