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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people. “Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
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