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"The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Morality is a private and costly luxury"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"All experience is an arch to build upon"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Intimates are predestined"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"He too serves a certain purpose, who only stands and cheers"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"They know enough who know how to learn"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"It is always good men who do the most harm in the world"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter"
Henry B. Adams, Historian
"Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable"
Tacitus, Historian
"Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it"
Tacitus, Historian
"Custom adapts itself to expediency"
Tacitus, Historian
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it"
Tacitus, Historian
"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
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