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“A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.”

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Aristotle, a renowned Greek philosopher, is one of the founders of Western philosophy. His thoughts covered a wide range of fields, including ethics, logic, politics, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.”

Children Has Beens Would Be Dies Force Born Chance Race Best Things Wretched Profitable Ephemeral Tribulation Second Best

Author:Aristotle

“What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.”

Giving Self Age Lasts Violence Hair Tradition Abuse Shakes Gray Antiquity Morrow Gray Hair Acquiescence

Book:The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review

Source: The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review

“Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.”

Manners Characteristics Cowardice

Author:Edward Everett

“The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.”

Ifs World Should Whole Spiritual Faith Moral Support Influence Highest Historical Probability Propositions

Author:Edward Everett

“A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.”

Men Country Character Facts Age Language Principles Rocks He Man Agency Phenomenon Progressive Possessed Solitary Providence Never Ending Great Character

Book:Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.”

Source: Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions

“The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.”

Important Eternal

Author:Billy Graham

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