He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.
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Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
When we heed God's Word, we are rejecting how the world tries to disciple us.
Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
In the context of today, this WAS heroism.