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The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
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The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
One does not make revolutions by halves.
That which nourishes me also destroys me.
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things, old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Must it be? It must be.
There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him.
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.