"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."

Discipline, Strength, First, Soldiers

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"The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength."

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"In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption."

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"You are either going to go through the pain of disappointment or discipline in your life. The latter makes the pain worth it."

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"If you always want to have whatever you want any time you want it with no delays, and denial of self, you would end up ruining your life."

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"By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"

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"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."

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"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

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"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."

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"Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God."

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"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."

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