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1798·Paris, France
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.
All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
Theodore Roosevelt·1904We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADThat which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
G.K. Chesterton·1908Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
