"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."

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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."

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"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies."

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"The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty."

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"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."

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"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."

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"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."

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"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"A lie never lives to be old."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

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"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."

Christopher Lasch, American Historian

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"The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty."

"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career."

"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."

"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves."

"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron."

"When did one man ever civilize a people?"

"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience."

"Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome."

"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."

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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

"A lie never lives to be old."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."

"A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions."