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“Y a trois sortes de tyrans : les uns ont le royaume par élection du peuple, les autres par la force des armes, les autres par succession de leur race.”

Book:Discours de la servitude volontaire: Réquisitoire contre l'Absolutisme

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“Il n'y a qu'une seule hypothèse raisonnable: le tyran craint le sage parce que celui-ci pourrait tenter de le renverser, non pas afin de restaurer un gouvernement libre, mais pour devenir un tyran lui-même ou conseiller utilement un disciple ou un ami sur le procédé à employer pour devenir tyran en renversant le tyran régnant. le raisonnement de Hiéron n'exclut pas la conception populaire de la sagesse, mais la confirme plutôt: il n'exclut pas, mais confirme plutôt l'idée que le sage est un tyran potentiel.”

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Book:On Tyranny: An Interpretation Of Xenophon's Hiero

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“our emotional experience remains largely unexplored, and therein lie the dramas, poems, and novels." [Larry McMurtry]”

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Book:Larry McMurtry: A Life

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“None of it [art] tells you anything new; it merely reminds you of something you already know but forgot you knew. And that's what Larry did." [Bill Wittliff about Larry McMurtry]”

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Book:Larry McMurtry: A Life

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“The novel offers no startling revelations about how to cope with grief or sadness or aging. It offers what a novel can, a rich, full experience of an individual mind. [re: Larry McMurtry, Duane's Depressed]”

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“She said I was a monster, and for a long time I believed her. But you made me feel like a man, someone worthy of being loved. Then you went away, and I had nothing, nothing but a hopeless demon inside.”

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Book:Heat, Hunt, Hope

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“If nothing else had made sense in all of his existence, Kathel was sure about the love stirring inside his heart for his Destoul. He knew he had been created to love her, bind with her, and keep her by his side forever." -Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance”

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“She considered him further and decided he could definitely pass for a pirate. No, she thought, correcting herself. More like a sea captain, a younger version of the captain from that old movie where the pretty woman rents an old sea captain's house only to find the place haunted by the sea captain himself. She let out a heavy breath. Man, she loved that movie.”

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