Is this Christianity?
and is Saladin to be damned if he despises it?"
DEMOSTHENES.
"While I remember what I have been, I never can be less.
External power can affect those only who have none intrinsically. I
have seen the day, Eubulides, when the most august of cities had but
one voice within her walls; and when the stranger, on entering them,
stopped at the silence of the gateway, and said, `Demosthenes is
speaking in the assembly of the people.'"
"There are few who form their opinions of greatness from the
individual. Ovid says, `the girl is the least part of herself.' Of
himself, certainly, the man is."
"No men are so facetious as those whose minds are somewhat
perverted. Truth enjoys good air and clear light, but no
playground."
"I found that the principal means (of gratifying the universal
desire of happiness) lay in the avoidance of those very things, which
had hitherto been taken up as the instruments of enjoyment and
content; such as military commands, political offices, clients,
adventures in commerce, and extensive landed property.
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