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Quote by Cato the Elder

“If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.”

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Cato the Elder, a Roman statesman, orator, and writer, was born in 234 BC and died in 149 BC. He is known for his steadfast moral stance and his opposition to the reforms of Marius, being a key figure in the late Roman Republic. more

“There are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just dont like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is go and bleed It is more important to keep law and order in society than to be worried about weak-kneed people Society must take every means at its disposal to defend itself against the emergence of a parallel power which defies the elected power.”

People Heart Mean I Can Important Law Order Gun Weak Worried Parallels Bleeding Law And Order Emergence Helmet Very Mean Bleeding Heart

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“You must overcome death by finding God in it.”

Death Findings Overcoming Finding God

Author:Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“A novel is based on evidence, + or -x, the unknown quantity being the temperament of the novelist, and the unknown quantity always modifies the effect of the evidence, and sometimes transforms it entirely.”

Sometimes Fiction Novel Effects Evidence Novelists Quantity Temperament

Author:E. M. Forster

“It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.”

Character Fiction Known Produce Source Function Queens Novelists Victoria

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced from his actions-falls into the domain of history.”

Men Action Spiritual Fall Existence Domain

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.”

Mistake Quality Humility Hypocrisy Admiration Phases Degenerates Great Mistakes Defensiveness Phases Of Life

Book:Aspects Of the Novel

Source: Aspects Of the Novel

“Intuition attracts those who wish to be spiritual without any bother, because it promises a heaven where the intuitions of others can be ignored.”

Spiritual Heaven Wish Promise Intuition Bother Ignored

Author:E. M. Forster

“A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.”

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