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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.


Minnie Maddern Fiske

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
FREDERICK THE GREAT In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
there are poisonou...
MAKARIOS THE GREAT An educated people can be easily governed.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
FREDERICK THE GREAT A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, then should wish to be Diogenes.
ALEXANDER, THE GREAT Talents go by nature not by birth.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
ALFRED THE GREAT I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of...
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FREDERICK THE GREAT If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I praise loudly. I blame softly.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes de...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT He who defends everything defends nothing.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
CATHERINE THE GREAT Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?
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BASIL THE GREAT We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner.
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LEO THE GREAT I have head the nightingale herself.
AGESILAUS, THE GREAT If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
FREDERICK THE GREAT Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
FREDERICK THE GREAT The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
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ALFRED, THE GREAT Do sometimes sink with their own weights. [Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]
CATHERINE, THE GREAT The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
CATHERINE THE GREAT I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes
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CATHERINE THE GREAT All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!
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