"And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head."

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Source : "Epistles", Book IV. 22 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 196), 1922.

Pliny the Younger

#Men Quotes #Body Quotes #Disease Quotes

“I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.”
“My love can't be purchased Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.”
“Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.”
“The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.”
“I don't set out to make a really hot shoe, I set out to make a product that is true to where I am.”
“The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.”

Source : C. S. Forester (1946). “Lord Hornblower”
“My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction.”
“Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking in the laboratory and in philosophy, and consequently the difference between the destination of mankind and its present course.”

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