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Quote by Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos

“Flattery is the infantry of negotiation.”

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Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos, was a British politician, writer, and critic. He served as a pilot during World War I and entered politics after the war. Lyttelton was known for his wide-ranging interests and talents, engaging in literature, politics, and media. more

“We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles.”

Ifs Knows Men May Important Certain Principles Ignorance Absolutes Determined Ignorant Ease

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Ignorance plays the chief part among men, and the multitude of words.”

Men Play Ignorance Chiefs Multitudes

Author:Diogenes Laertius

“Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.”

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Author:Theognis of Megara

“My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company and for the fullness of my life three other humans and an enormous amount of animals and land and sky and wind. As a child, my experience of God included everything-a love of the whole beauty around me. And the country was so beautiful: mountains that ended in aspen groves and streams, thick with wild animals and game of all kinds. One time I said to my mother, "You know, I think heaven is just like this, only the animals would speak to us; they wouldn't be afraid of us."”