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"Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
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"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
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"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
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"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
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"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
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"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
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"To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it."
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