The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than
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In general, Machiavellism and Utopianism can be taken to be too sharply opposed; the one realistic and the other idealistic and dr
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Society is an illusion to the young citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men, and institutions, rooted
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Your real statesman is first of all, and chief of all, a great human being, with an eye for all the great fields on which men like
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I think it better that in times like these
A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth ...
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To suppose that "I know" is a descriptive phrase, is only one example of the descriptive fallacy, so common in philosophy. Even if
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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked hi
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Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled
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