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“Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy.”

Source: Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete

“It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.”

Reason Order Passion Grows Victory Goodness Bounds Dues Lust Command Pleasant Empires Appetite Virtuous

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.”

World Years States Certain Three Christianity Position Victory Hundred Appearance Socialism Empires Sixty

Book:K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

Source: K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

“I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.”

Knows Stills Wish Know How Victory Injustice Noble Oppression Empires Absurdity

Book:The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe

Source: The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe

“I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.”

People Way Guy Fighting Talking Talent Victory Eras Greek Empires Lions Arena Roman Empire Smack Roman Civilization Smack Talk

Author:J. B. Smoove

“My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It`s hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.”

Years War Hard Whole Today Order Fall Careers Building Cold Victory My Friends Europe Empires Soviet Recalls Cold War Improbable Foreign Service

Author:Daniel Fried

“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”

Wealth Poverty Victory Gold Defeat Prosperity Poison Native Empires Metals Alchemy Scrap Implicit Scrap Metal

Book:Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Source: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

“Ferguson argued that British involvement in World War I was unnecessary, far too costly in lives and money for any advantage gained, and a Pyrrhic victory that in many ways contributed to the end of the Empire.”

World Way War Ends Victory Advantage British War Of The Worlds Empires World War I Unnecessary Involvement Ferguson

Author:David Harsanyi